College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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CHARL1-zs F. NVISHART l President of the College l - A Greetings for the 1936 llndex For a true philosophy of life, commend me to the poets and the humorists! To the poets because, unscared by the bogey of hard logic, they see life in its illogical reality. To the humorists because they do not attack wrong with bludg- eons, but wash clean the infected areas of society with the healing antiseptic of high mirth. Cervantes wrought a greater service for his country than any of her re- nowned generals. He laughed out of court the stilted, hypocritical forms of an outmoded chivalry. But in doing so he gave the world an immortal character, awkwardly, absurdly pathetic. Don Quixote, like Charley Chaplin, makes you laugh at first, and then, on thinking it over, you feel rather like weeping. For underneath the whimsical absurdities you catch something fine and beautiful- the soul of a true chivalry. Our campus welcomes Cervantes and his immortal Don. We would do away with shams and hypocrisies, but retain the beauty of high, sincere idealism. May the INDEX for 1936 he to all of us a lifelong reminder of mirth and good fel- lowship, of occasional quaint absurdities and Homeric laughter which covers, but can never entirely conceal, the love and pathos and eternal significance of our life together. Faithfully yours, His life was not his own but theirs who stood in need of his assistance. -:if IS lif-