Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts - Mohawk Yearbook (North Adams, MA)

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7 26.41 6lfLi .4 6.4.46 6 for The Class of l91ll MY RELATIONSHIP to your class will always be close, for you were the first Freshman Class to enter during my presidency and the first to complete four years under my administration. We are classmates. You have borne with courage and kind understanding all the uncertainties that were inherent in the changes in curricula and policies of the college during our years to- gether. Perhaps, there could not have been a better preparatory experience for entering a society which in your generation will be one of continuous and turbulent change. You have been inured to vicissitude and expec- tant of the new. Through it all our goal has remained fixed. We are finding new roads and ways of travel which will bring us more surely and happily to our des- tination. I hope our years together have strengthened a philosophy and faith, if you fortunately possessed one, in the worthwhileness of the struggle for significant liv- ing,-and for those of you who did not, that these have been years full of experience out of which a sustaining faith might grow. Life will have meaning if you can keep alive, even in the midst of defeat, a belief in the inevitable- ness of ultimate victory. Into your custody as teachers is given this faith, to be realized in your own personal living, and to be passed on to the children you teach. My wish for you is that you shall never lose faith - even in the discouragement of temporary defeats. You will win, as all men and peoples have, who never per- mitted the clouds of cynicism to destroy their vision of victory.