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ODAY Today the College is ... it has become a working reality perhaps exceeding the dreams and plans of the past . . . but more than that, the College is today ' s link be- tween past and future ... an incorporate body in which yesterday ' s symbols are to- day ' s living tradition ... a tradition expand- ing to fill today ' s needs and translating them into more symbols ... to add to to- morrow ' s store of tradition. The greatest of the past . . . men, deeds, and motives . . . live in the College today. They live in significant traditions ... in the titles and ritual of academic occasions ... in the mace of student self-government ... in the names and furnishings of Col- lege edifices ... in the continual existence of traditional organizations ... in the tra- ditions of Homecoming and Colonial Fes- tival ... in the high standards and ideals of academic pursuits. In these symbols, tra- dition continues as a perpetual allegiance to the past. Yet her greatness of today is more . . . the expansion of the old to include the new . . . this is our pride in the College today. Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity . . . still existing in tradition and highest ideals . . . now is symbolized in a modem structure . . . capable of fulfilling the needs of today. In the academic building of traditional names, modern thoughts are presented with the old ... an opportunity to learn of yesterday and today. In the Great Hall ... an environ- ment from the past . . . yesterday ' s Christ- mas customs are mingled with new carols and voices of today. We are honored with royal and distinguished visits . . . remin- iscent of ancient royal ties in a modem role. This is the progress of William and Mary . . . these its present symbols . . . drawn from tradition of the past ... to become the tradition of the future. : : : -fS:
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•-- . -a It took much to build the College . . . more than the passage of years. It took the founding ... of proud and royal origin . . . but more important, one which was motivated by a purpose of the highest essence . . . for she was established to the end that . . . the Youth may be piously educated in good Letters and Manners . . . Concrete realization of this highest essence was necessary too . . . realization embodied in great men and great deeds. These were the proof of that essence . . . yesterday ' s symbols . . . today ' s tradition. These were men such as Washington, Jefferson, Marshall, and Wythe, whose later deeds were testimony of their magnitude of spirit and ambition . . . spirit and ambi- tion which were nourished, perhaps acquired, through the College . . . under her influence. These, too, were the deeds of such men who changed history . . . deeds of the College and of her children which revolu- tionized collegiate life. It took faith and courage to make the College . . . to motivate her great deeds . . . not faith and courage because of the past, but in spite of the future. Without this, the royal origin and highest ideals would have been in vain . . . with this, they became living symbols of tradition and faith. It was such as this that made men struggle in spite of indifference and inade- quate finances ... it was such as this that made a man ring the College bell once every year in spite of empty classrooms ... so that there would still be a College of William and Mary in Virginia ... a college with a vibrant traditional past ... a college which would be ready to meet the demands of the future.
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