Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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ust as the writers of the Declaration of Independence and the authors of the Constitution wrote the guarantee of the political liberties which they left as our heritage, so too must the teachers and students in our American schools and colleges realize that the new frontiers must be established by cooperation through the democratic processes. As teachers we must open the doors that common man may enter into his full inheritance. The youth of today must be given the best possible educa- tion that he may think and do the things so necessary to the life of our free institutions. As you, the members of the class of 1942, go forth from your Alma Mater to meet the challenge, I have faith that you will not meet it in the cowardly complaint of Hamlet, The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right, but rather in the ringing words of Rupert Brooke who gave his life in the last World War: Now God be thanked who has matched us with this hour.