California University of Pennsylvania - Monocal Yearbook (California, PA)

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Herc's a picture of the President, Dr. Robert M. Steele. When we came here last week there was a Freshman meeting the same day I took my test and I jotted down a few of the things he said. I dorft suppose he would mind. if I quoted him to you.

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Dear Mother, Well I'm here and I like it a lot although I miss you, and the kids, and your cooking and looking after me. I'm sorry you couldn't come with dad and me because I know you would have enjoyed seeing the place. The pictures I'-rn sending will help, and you will be coming soon so you'll see everything, but I sort of felt funny when I left. The sophomores took that out of me soon-with the haircut and all.- 'You should have seen my haircut. A couple of the boys came for me and I thought it was just another paddling. They blindfolded me and took me into a room and then I heard the scissors and it was too late to do anything-but it's all in fun. Anyway we are really getting into the swing of things now, with classes starting and all. The faculty here, what I know of it, is a pretty nice group. I have my profs for this semester marked in that group of pictures I sent last week. .1-nhlllh gi- ' PORCHES AND SNCW AND THE NIGHT

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It is given to few generations to see in their own lifetime the remaking of the world. Changes in the map brought about by force of arms or intrigue, inf volving, it may be, the destruction of peoples is the least significant of the changes wrought. Man's up' ward struggle has been marked by great advances and by great reccssions but always there persists that basic spiritual urge that drives man on and makes him seek what appears to be a higher good. In this evolution in recent years mechanical and scientific progress in material things have far out' stripped spiritual development and the search for techniques for making justice and good will effective among men. No permanent peace can come and no sustained orderly progress is possible without relative' ly equal advances of these two aspects of progress - the spiritual and the material. Advancing abreast they complement each. other. In our day mechanical and material advances with' out the control exercised by good will threaten to overthrow civilization, drench the world with human blood and destroy in a few years the wealth, the cul' ture and the material gains made during centuries of toil. Contemplating the world of our day and asking what part education has played in all this and what task faces it, future teachers may well ponder the significance of the admonition: Let no unskilled hand play upon the harp whose music stays forever in the stringsf' ,,,p.nuvl1 ,funn-I