Texas Christian University - Horned Frog Yearbook (Fort Worth, TX)

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Presidents Message EDUCATICDN AND THE GGCDD LIFE The Message of the President to the Class of l91lO Got any ri1'e1'.v Ifzey my are 1111t'1'u.m1Ha, G01 4111 lzmzmnzizzs von fwfr fnwzel ffzmzwfz :V . ts 1 life Jperiizfiza in lficf izvfzoffy ilnporfibfe Doing ixfnil nobody efse ronfrf Jo. Education is the enlistment of man's highest powers in the service of the best. Four years in the university should have enabled you to have formulated a philosophy of life but even more a philosophy of living. A philosophy of life may be abstract. A philosophy of living must be concrete, practical and of daily service. A real philosophy of living will include faith, open-mindedness, cour- age and perseverance: it should concern itself with those ultimate values of truth, beauty, and goodness. Education has a threefold function to perform in life. It is decorative, utilitarian and spiritual. lt should give refinement, it should enable us to be- come more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of lifep and it must also humanize us. Education should train us for quick, resolute and effective thinking. lt should teach us to weigh evidence, to judge critically and to dis- cern between the true and the false. lt should develop creative imagination. The new revela- tions of life come from those who can frame out of three sounds not a fourth sound but a star-. True Education will transmit to us not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. lt will educate us for the good life. There are two qualities which distinguish the good life-adventure and service. lt is only in the thick of battle that we are privileged to taste the intoxication of the good life. lt is a life character- ized by the prophetic rhythm of adventure. lt hungers after a new heaven and a new earth. The whole story of human progress of the race has come through new truth, new insight and new vision-those fine qualities by which the adven- turous spirits have added to our social assets. Certainly the good life requires the spirit of service, l therefore admonish you as the class of l94O to launch out into the deep. What a joy to live when there is so much to live for! This very fact should gird your loins for spatial enterprises. You owe an incredible obligation to your genera- tion. You are to discover new continents of truthg new frontiers of human values are yet to be opened. The powers of selfishness, ignorance and fear are to be subjugated, new eras of peace, good will and brotherhood, and understanding are to follow in this present world, turbulent and torn by war. lf you follow the lure of the good life with its spirit of service and adventure, the charm and the enchantment of the pilgrimage will lead you through unending cycles of greater truth, greater beauty, nobler goodness, and unselfish service. As your thoughts travel in these vaster orbits new powers commensurate with the limitless tasks will come to you from the Omnipotent One. Heaven's blessings attend you as you seek with restless feet, and resistless and undaunted cour- age, the glory and mystery of this good life that leads to the land of your coveted dreams. If the way at times seems dark, take courage from those fine lines quoted by England's King at the open- ing of the year. l said to a man who stood at the gate of the year: 'Give me a light that l may tread safely into the unknowng' and he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than a light and safer than a known wayf May that Almighty hand guide and uphold us all.