Columbus School of Law - Explorer Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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We, who are graduating, are Explorers in a modern world blessed with the genius of many enlightened men but festered with madness induced by a few who wearing the thin cloak of civilization are no less brutes of barbarism, disseminating seeds of ignorance, retrogression and superstitiong motivated by avarice, greed and the lust for power. We must strive to bring order out of chaos and preserve that civilization which we of the new world largely have built, so that we and our posterity may enjoy freedom and justiceg and that tolerance, reason and individual enterprise may not be destroyed. We must safeguard our cherished rights and institutions yet we must seek improvement and the establishment of a new order-a super-democracy-in order that suffering and destitution might be alleviated and their progeny, crime, banished from our community, We, who are graduating, are Explorers of an uncertain future. Ours is the task of rehabilitation and reorganization. The prevalent problems are man-made and susceptible to solution by mortals. Men have been fighting each other, like beasts, from the dawn of Time. Civilized men were Hghting when Columbus discovered the New World and now, nearly 450 years later, men still are fighting. The hopes of humanity rest with the peoples of the New World, and with the modern Explorers in the fields of learning- science and law. We must achieve that state of civilization wherein our economy fulfills the needs of our people and the masses are so enlightened that no demagogue can sway them by appealing to emotions rather than to intellect. Our hope for the future, the hope of America and of the World, lies in the Graduate of Today. --JOHN A. Niivnos, '40,