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

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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

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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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yuan ,gunsh- ,funn- ' THEODORE A. SIEDLE Dean of Inswuctioffz PAUL N. WALKER Dean of Men