Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

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¥ AND DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT Dr. and Mrs. Pratt will be at home.

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A CAPABLE DR. WILLIS E. PRATT James Matthew Barrie once said that the reason birds can fly and we can ' t is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. Today, as never before, we need wings for the future. Wings that emerge from a faith in the future of America. A kind of faith that led fearless men to face hardships, and toil and hun- ger and death to build a nation for free men in a free land. A kind of faith that caused men to rush from their farms and homes to face the mil- itary might of a world empire to gain the principles of a democratic life for their children and for posterity. The kind of faith which burned in the heart of a tall, gaunt American who fearlessly dedicated his life to the cause of free men that this nation should net perish from the earth. For all these had faith — faith that gave them, too, wings for the future.

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Mr James G. Morgan Dean of Instruction Deans Message • War disrupts schools as it disrupts every other social and political institution. You who are graduating have been more fortunate than those who have been called tc serve in the armed forces of their country. During the last two years you have witnessed many changes in the peace- time program of your college and a tremendous transformation in the naticnal economy as your nation girds for total war. Undoubtedly in the future many of your accustomed ways of life will also be disrupted. If your years at Mansfield have enabled you to achieve the intellectual insight and moral stamina to willingly face reality and to willingly make any sacrifice necessary tc preserve democracy, you will give the surest guarantee to those whose efforts have guided you through four years of college the type of confidence that will keep and preserve our demo- cratic way of life. — Javies G. Morgan. 12