Boston State College - Bostonian / Lampas Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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The affection and gratitude we feel for you, our faculty, are sentiments that have grown and strengthened during our years at Teachers College. You have initiated us into the teaching profession. You have inspired, encouraged, and guided us in our work. You have placed the Vision before our eyes and kept it there. Thy gifts thy teaching are ivithin my brain Full-charactered in lasting memory Which shall above that idle rank remain I all date — even to eternity . ' '

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My message to you at your Commencement season is simply this, — Remember that it is not the primary business of life to do something; the primary business is to be something. You can be this or you can be that. What you will be depends largely upon the friendships you cultivate and your willingness to pay the cost. Friendship with nature; friendship with great thoughts; friendship with the nobler aspirations of your own mind and soul; fine, true friendship with your fellowmen on higher levels of interest; and conscious and joyous friendship with the life-giving spirit of God: these are the friendships which will lead to true success in such a profession as yours. Say to your mind, Live deep! Say to your soul, Live deep! That you may have a rich and satisfying response is the wish of Your friend,

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. . LAMP AS • . 3n ilemoriam ILillim 3fulia JHaclRac For her heart ivas in hsr work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. Miss MacRae, who was bravely and entirely devoted to her work as a teacher, leaves a hallowed memory. Hers was a life of loving service, generously given to both the teaching profession and the scientific world, — a life which enriched the lives of all who came in contact with her. The courageous spirit with which our beloved teacher and friend performed her work in later years, in spite of constant physical suffering, must ever serve as an inspiration to those who worked with Miss MacRae at The Teachers College. Because of the number of teachers who studied under her guidance at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology during each summer, her service to the teaching profession was country-wide. The work she completed at the Wood ' s Hole Laboratories is a valuable contribu- tion to science. We who were associated with Miss MacRae at The Teachers College admired her for her integrity, respected her for her wise counsel and judgment, and loved her for the noble woman that she was. The memory of Miss MacRae, the sympathetic, self-sacrificing teacher, will ever inspire us to higher and higher ideals of life and work.