University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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. y.-...-. s i OUR UNIVERSITY— MAY IT LIVE FOREVER! s s HE University ' s first fifty years ! And what a fifty years for man ! Tl Fifty years of magic in business and of miracle in science ! Space I defied by telephone, wireless, automobile and aeroplane! Time defied by steel structures and perfected power machinery ! Pain conquered by anaesthetics and plague by sanitation and by serum! The un- heard become audible, the unseen visible, the uncountable numbered and the unmeasurable fathomed! Matter itself challenged in its last electron lair! Explorers, victors over farthest north and farthest south, annexers of the last island, climbers nearing the summit of the highest peak! Deciphered tablets, unearthed cities and unsealed tombs trebling the years of history! Timeless strata, with prehistoric Yoricks lengthening the human story to half a million years ! Fifty years so changeful that Tutankhamen would have less difficulty to get his mental and material bearings in the world of 1 874 than would the man of 1874 to adjust to the mechanics and the thought of 1924!

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PRESIDENT WALTER E. CLARK s

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Yet, great as have been the achievements of this half century of marvels, greater must follow. Much is to learn and much to do before man shall make conquest in the true human levels, the social and the spiritual worlds. Who has laid the Malthusian ghost? Who has resolved the clash of nationality or the riddle of race? Who has shown Democracy how to widen leisure without enlarging the Devil ' s workshop or how to develop and to avail itself of great leadership rather than to remain at the dull levels of mediocrity or to sink through octracism? Who has pointed the way to a world of peace, without softened thews and regnant sentimentalism or to a world of plenty, without hucksters at the helm and blind idlers in the lookout? To realize the highest potentials of every man and woman in all the world is the great goal. Men cannot become more like gods merely by heaping banquet-boards, by multiplying garments, by running to and fro on longer journeys or by widening the range of gossip. These thmgs mark men as luxuriatmg animals only. If the race is truly to grow, to increase m soul stature, better ways must be found to lessen uncleanness, greed, selfishness and pride and to widen cleanness, charity, comradeship and reverence. Construc- tive search after truth, creation and appreciation of beauty, perfecting of will to serve, development of humility, tolerance and spiritual vision — these are of the upper air in which alone souls breathe. For fifty years our University has been an upland of truth, a temple of . , , beauty, a shrine from which men and women have gone with shining faces to Tj4 serve their day. May the heroisms of this, its morning half century, the heroisms of pioneering builders and of alumni, that first eight hundred, scattered, labor- iny in all lands, inspire us and myriads after us throughout its everlasting day ! May an endless company of men and women, their torches lighted at the ' A broadening altars on this hill, go forth as light bearers for the race to bring nearer and nearer the day when all the earth shall be radiant in the glory of the light that never was on land or sea ! — Walter E. Clark. 10