San Jose State College - La Torre Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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REETINGS: It gives me great pleasure to send words of greeting to the Faculty and Students of the San Jose State Teachers College. ' For many years, as a student of education in California, I have noted the splendid work done by your institution, first as a pioneer Normal School and then as one of our splendid group of State Teachers Colleges. I have realized for many years the necessity for more adequate prepa- ration of teachers in the elementary grades, and particularly for the dignifying of the profession by more adequate compensation and more complete training. With great pleasure I have had relationships With three of your Presi- dents during this transition period,--Doctor Morris Ef Dailey, of hallowed memory, Doctor W. W. Kemp, now Dean of the School of Education of the University of California, and your present President, Doctor E. R. Snyder. In this group of splendid men you have found proponents for the larger ideas and ideals of education. I congratulate those of you Who are now cooperating with Doctor Snyder either as Professors or Students. When the people of this State fully appreciate the magnificent service of our teacher training institutions, very much needed and very much appreciated expansion Will be possible. It is my'honor to give you the cordial greetings of the Trustees, the Faculty, and the Students of the College of the Pacific in its last year as your immediate neighbor. TULLY C. KNOLES, President Coilege of The Pacific.

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CDedz'catz'on t0 tbeFacu lty 5C? capital offense, to execute not only the criminal but also the man who had been entrusted With the criminals education. We in the West are not so logical; VJe do not punish the tutor for the pupils misdeeds, and, on the other hand, those of us who escape the gallows are apt to forget to what extent our escape is due to the men and women who educated us. I wonder how many of the llGold and Whites who have passed through your classrooms realize how great is the debt they owe you? With- out the care you have lavished on us we should probably all be worse men and women than we are. That point of View did not occur to us at the time of our entrance, and it was not until we had come in personal contact with you in your classrooms that we began to learn to love you. When we first came to you as pupils, we believed that the science of Psychology consisted of nothing more than an endless string of meaningless and unpronounceable names. You taught us that the childrenls world was a very wonderful and fascinating place and made some of us yearn for the time when we should be able to go forth, giving some of the treasures you so gladly and freely gave to us. We came to you holding the belief that the science of History was nothing more than Columbus a discovered - America - fourteen - ninety - two - 'Declaration - of - Independence - signed - July - 4 - seventeen - seventy-six, multi- plied by dreariness to an infinite degree. Instead, you taught us directly the measure of the privileges and responsibilities bequeathed us by those who lived and fought and died for America. Indirectly you taught us that knowledge has a value more precious than its power to win marks in school and money in after life. Soon after I began work on the 1924 La uTorre, I re-read the lines addressed by Rudyard Kipling to one of his former masters: ? T used to be the custom in the Orient, when a man had committed a Let us now praise famous menl- lVlen of little showing-a For their work continueth, And their work continueth, Broad and deep continueth, Greater than their knowing! The words immediately called you to my mind. For that reason we dedicate this book to you, not in payment of the debt we owe you-we have not wealth enough for that-abut in acknowledgement of it. E. C. WILLIAMS, Editor, And the members of the 1924 out- going classes of the San Jose State Teachers College.

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REETINGS AND FAREWELL TO THE GRADUATING CLASSES OF 1924: HI shall always deem it a misfortune that our association has been so brief and our opportunities so few to become acquainted. We have been together for but eight short months. Upon occasion we have passed one another in the corridors and on the campus, but this has occurred so infrequently that we are like unto Nships that pass in the night? The college has become so large that it is difficult, if not impossible. for a member of the faculty to meet and know well each student even for a brief period. I wish that it might have been possible for me to have known each and all of you, not alone as graduates of the college, but as acquaintances and friends. I hope that you are carrying away with you enduring friendships 'with members of the faculty and student associates; I also hope that you have come to love the San Jose State Teachers College as those love it Who have gone before you; because nothing sweetens life more than beautiful memories of the past. This, you will more fully ap- preciate in years to come. You are entering upon the most important service that can be rendered to man. You are casting your lot With those Who have dedicated their lives to the task of developing the bodies, the minds, and the souls of the children Who are destined to become the citizens of the future. The Teachers College has expressed its faith in you by honoring you With its diploma of graduation. I know that you Will keep well the faith and that you Will render to humanity a service that will be an honor and a credit to you and your Alma Mater. Sincerely yours, E. R. SNYDER, President APRIL 9, 1924.