Drury University - Souwester Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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Presidents Message In the progressive world every age differs from the preceding one. The present age is no exception. It is vain, therefore, to try to turn back the hands of the clock in an effort to convince ourselves that it is Nyesterdayw instead of today, Acknowledging the actuality of the present, our problem is that of adjusting ourselves wisely and happily to the present. 'A I In making this adjustment we must recognize the inalienable rights of youth to citizenship in this new world, a world that youth has inherited and not created. We must remember that the young people of this generation, like the young people of past generations, have their own lives to live, their own destinies to achieve. And, suddenly thrust into this age of bewilderment and perf plexities, to their credit be it said, they meet life unafraid. They dare face facts. They yearn for reality. They hate shams. They have independence, as did their Revolutionary forbears, and are willing to take big risks. By and large, however, they are right minded, morally earnest, and bravely trying to struggle their way through the mazes of a strangely complicated civilization. The modern college' ought to aid materially in helping youth solve its problem of adjustment to the new age. -The college ought to be friendly to all sane and progressive thinking. It ought to be the open door to truth. It ought to generate high idealism and wholesome enthusiasms. It ought to endow youth with a rational faith, a steadying purpose, a quenchless passion for truth and a mastering devotion to high endeavor. The college ought to interpret the eagerness and restlessness of the purposeful college man and woman of today as the earnest of a more just social order, a truer democracy, a better and more friendly world, tomorrow. THOMAS WILLIAM NADAL. E91

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THOMAS WILLIAM NADAL AM MPd PhD LLD Pveszdent of the College 8

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,Wi E N. BENNETT, RUTH ESTHER REED AB., AM., .L.L.D. Dean of the College, Professor of Education. CARL BROWN SWIFT, AB., B.D., D.D. Dean of the School of the Bible.