Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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Ola tha 5mm: of ngustana in Qtamp anti an the iBattIeJine As the Class of 1918 takes its leave of Alma Mater Augusi tana, it wishes to leave behind a little memorial of its brief sojourn within the hallowed precincts of the College it has learned to love. And so in accordance with scholastic tradir tions the class has issued this annual as a faint but sincere expression of gratefulness to that complex sum-total of human individuals, forces, principles and Hatmospherefwhich constitute the College. When the question arose as to whom this volume shou1d be dedicated, the answer was instant and unanimous. Bruthcrs in camp and battle-line, listen: During our acar demic careerwe have read something of the records of the past, as well of other countries as Of Our own. The lives of the truly great have been interpreted to us by those whose own souls vibrate in sympathy with the ideas and the ideals of the noble men who uttered them and cherished them. we have learned that the heroes of the world were men who did not simply live, but who devoted their livcsfaye sacrificed them in many a caseito the service of a noble cause. We have also learned that of ali things temporal, among civiLized men, there is nothing comparable to devotion to one,s Country. All this was in our hearts when our beloved country, much against its own inclination, became involved in the awful world wart now raging, and called upon its loyal sons for succor and support in its hour of peril, and when you, brothers of ours, responded to that call instantly and ungrudgingly.