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Each year, I am asked to write a few sage words of greeting to the members of the gradu- ating class. While few of these may find their way into anthologies of The Great Messages of All Time, I nevertheless must pause and ponder just what it may be that a particular class requires in the form of a parting salvo from its University president. The class of 1964 occupies a unique niche in the recent history of URI for, I am happy to ob- serve, it has championed the demise of the so- called silent generation. You may recall how social scientists were describing you back in your freshman days as diffident, selfish, unemotional, unmotivated, covetous of security, and appalling- ly disinterested in the vital and compelling issues confronting mankind. In many ways, these criti- cisms were justified. Today, however, I seem to detect a sound, gratifying, and most welcome intellectual fer- ment taking form on our campus. Questions are being asked, sides are being taken, students are standing up to be counted and, seemingly, no controversy is beyond the realm of student in- volvement. To have played an important role in the nourishment of such a noble movement is among the greatest legacies the Class of 1964 could leave its Alma Mater. I have frequently said that education should be habit-forming, and the campus the place where man ' s most civilizing habit is built. Hoping, then, that the fine habits with which you have made your mark at URI will be nurtured through regu- lar use in your post-university careers, I commend to your custody this last bit of advice. Your edu- cation here has equipped you, I hope, with an enduring appreciation for the life of the mind, and with the value of developing that mind to its full- est. You will never learn all there is to be learned, but it should be your consummate ambition to move as far as you can possibly go in that di- rection. Francis H. Horn President 19
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