University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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Greetings for 1928 Surely we may rejoice as the year progresses and we see nearing comple- tion the new buildings on our campus, which the growing interest and gen- erosity of the people of our State have made jMissihle. I have no special confidence in the effectiveness of mere size or massiveness of masonry in this educational process, nor do I enviously long for the rich tracery of Gothic archways and the dreamy beauty of many-spired towers. These, indeed, have to me the sinister implications of their birth in a day when barbaric pride, pomp and privilege rested on a vast sub-stratum of human squalor, misery, and oppression. Yet we do have a right to lie glad in better facilities for work and in the simple dignity of environment for it which our new buildings will give us here. I summon our whole college community in gratefulness of heart for that which is given us, ami without envy or idle regret for that which we have not. to move forward to higher planes of intellectual and spiritual endeavor. Howard Edwards Twenty-one

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HONORABLE HOWARD EDWARDS, A M., LL.D. President of Rhode Island State Collcf c

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HELEN’ E. FECK, A M. Dean of IVomen JOHN BARLOW, AM. Dean of Science ANDREW J. NEWMAN. M.A., Ph D. Dean of Business Administration Deans and Curriculum Executives C.KORGE E. ADAMS, M.Agr. Dean of Agriculture Dean of Men ROYAL L. WALES. B.S. Dean of Engineering