Wofford College - Bohemian Yearbook (Spartanburg, SC)

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It is tlovving through a county which produces $16,000, 000 worth of textiles and 4,500 carloads of peaches in a single year — counties which boast magnificent garden spots known ' round the world — lands of forests of primeval size, full of wildlife — sec- tions of mountains and lakes and streams and beaches. It passes a section which is begin- ning to sense its wealth. It passes a country which is just finding itself.

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Straight and even — rises ever for more lofty heights of achievement and service. Its travelers are clear-minded; they have an understanding and appreciation for the finer things of life — the silent beauty of nature, the music of verse, struggles of the mind; they are equipped to improve their home, for only through intelligent supervision can a land be de- veloped to its fullest extent. This Road stretches through a country of teeming railroad yards and humming textile plants and terraced fields; it leads to factories yet unbuilt and undreamed.

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Wofford graduates, matured in mind and body, each setting out on his own Road into Life, are quite different from the motley crew of boys who trod the Road to Wofford. They have the same names, the same features, some of the same characteristics, but the changes in the intangible — that ordered air about them — mark them as different creatures. They have struggled with languages and so- ciology, religion and chemistry, history and physics, a little of all the things that keep men better than parrots. They have been given a smattering of the Knowledge of men long dead; they are turned loose to make of it what their ingenuity and resourcefulness en- able them. Of the many graduates, a few have been gifted with positions of authority. They serve themselves. They serve Man. OLIN D. JOHNSTON Senator . Footprints in the sands of time. '