Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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| CHEi::; IGENDA e J -INETEENXIWENTYONE THE president of a university to a greater degree than any other person con- nected Viith it, if he wishes to accomplish the highest purpose his position offers, comes in closest touch with the Faculty, Students, Alumni, and Friends. These all may be — and they ought to be — summoned to help in his grand design of laying broad and deep the foundations of the institution and of extending its reputation throughout the country and the world. The ability and the dispo- sition to rally these four helpers are not given to all who sit in presidential chairs. The energy required is often too great; the adaptability too rare; the interest in the matter, too feeble; the vision, too dim and narrow. Our new President, in the short time he has been in charge, has shown that he is determined to meet, if not to surpass, our great expectations. To the Faculty he is appreciative, cordial, sympathetic; to the Students he is accessible, patient, sympathetic; to the Alumni he is brotherly, deferential, zealous; to the Friends he is attractive, enthusiastic, inspiring. With him in the lead, all the forces that ought to work as one man for the good of Bucknell have already begun to move forward in many directions; and a result, greater than that accomplished in the past, looms clear and large in the present, to be fully realized, no doubt, in the not-distant future. It is no easy task for one who is not an Alumnus to grasp quickly and suc- cessfully the complex interests of an institution and marshal them harmoniously to the work in hand. This can be done only when to the fortiter in re there is joined the suaviter in modo. for both of which the new President was distinguished long before he came hither. Some good angel led by kindly stars brought to us as Presi- dent, Dr. Emory W. Hunt; and now, when there is no cloud in the sky and not a flutter of doubt in the heart, let all — Faculty, Students, Alumni, Friends — continue to meet him, as they have already given many signs of doing, with a whole-hearted and lasting WELCOME. ♦ . . . - • ■♦•

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DR. EMOR ' l ' W . ilLXr President of Bucknelt University

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Jn iipmDnam NEVIN AMOS WEISNER Wiftrtaa: the Great and Supreme Ruler of the Universe, in His infinite wisdom, has remo ed from our midst our late and faithful classmate, Nevin Amos Weisner. BSl|prpaB: we bow our hearts in humble submission to the will of our Heavenly Father, Who is just in all things; and while we mourn the loss of our classmate, we know that our loss is his eternal gain. Therefore, be it hereby Srsalupb: that we, the members of the Class of 192 1 of Bucknell University, dedicate a page in our L ' Agenda to the eternal memory of Nevin Amos Weisner, as a poor tribute to a classmate who has gone to his final resting place.