Bowling Green State University - Key Yearbook (Bowling Green, OH)

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The Upper Room-Continued duties-duty to oneself, duty to one's country, duty to one's God. The three are interdependent and inseparable. Now, it is, or should be, the purpose of our school system to help youth in the realization of these highest duties, to aid them in their growth in the greatest of all arts-the art of living. To this art minister all the works of man. Music, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, invention, building- all these are only phases of the supreme art. Since the race began to emerge from darkness, the human spirit has striven to realize and to record the truth and beauty of the world, and to bring nature under subjection. To a few men in any age has been given the power to see, to record, and to conquer. These we name the masters of the race. And these are the real historians of mankind. We know that the true record of humanity lies in its works of art and industry and thought: in the Bible, in Homer, in Greek and Roman art and laws, in Dante, in Magna Charta, in Shakespeare, in the Declaration of Independence, in the telephone system of a great city, in a hotel of a thousand rooms, in a Pennsyl- vania railway, in a mighty printing-press, in the voice which reaches from conti- nent to continent with no carrier except the air. These are the gifts of the race. To know them, and to discover himself in his heritage, is the student's duty to himself. The teacher is the guide. To realize his duty to his nation, the student must feel that he is an individual of the nation. He must see the principles for which America stands and for which she tights today. Our struggle from the beginning has been to pass from slavery to freedom: the Revolution, the work of Lincoln, the law and justice of our courts. the control of wrongful business practices, pure food laws, the betterment of laboring conditions, prison reform, our public school system-all these are endeavors to better the condi- tion of men and women-to make them happier. The third realization comes to the student as he reflects that no nation or individual has ever been truly great, except through obedience to Divine law. You, as teachers, can have no higher purpose than to help your boys and girls to realize that the master artists of the world are those who most fully live. Try not so much for the methods and trade-marks of education-we have been at that too long-but strive rather to help the individual to see the realities of life and his vital relation to them. The greatest discovery in modern education is that the child is an individual, with peculiar needs. The service of the teacher is to aid this individual to find himself. Students of our college, you are to be congratulated upon having selected a school whose President has given evidence by his daily life before you of self- communion in the upper room. His upstanding patriotism and his unashamed reliance upon that Power which is greater than man, have been an inspiration to us all. As you go out into the world of thought and action, may you not forget your College. She is your Alma Mater. From the childhood of the race, men have believed that they drank new strength by returning to that from which they sprang. Antaeus felt his power renewed each time he touched the earth: the child turns to its mother for the healing of its hurts and sorrows: men and women turn to God, from Whom cometh their help. So may you often return in kindly thought to your Nourish- ing Mother! I2

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