Gorham State College - Hillcrest / Green and White Yearbook (Gorham, ME)

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THE LIGHT OF THE MIND IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD Frenl the beginning ef tinie man has been impelled by a desire tn knew mere. He has tried te find nut aheut the werld areund him and he has realized he alee needed te study himself. Mere than twe theueand years age men were admeniehingt iiKne-w thyself.H WThe preper studyr ef :rnan- kind is man Peeple were dieeevering the difference between mere knewledgHii aeeumulatien ef faetEeen the ene handeand wiedeni, the untieratantiing and perapeetive which enabled man he use his facts in erder te gain perapeetive, te eheeae satisfying gnala and te pattern hi5 life deliherateij,r teward theee geale. Mania grewth hae been uneven. In seme plaeee and in annie times and in aeme peeple the light ef wiedem has burned lew and Hiekered. Again and again the dark abyeaee ef ignorance have threatened te engulf the human raee. Semetiinea the leaeene have been bitter. But threugh the ages man has learned that he must knew er perish. Fer a while, when with ever-inereaeing speed he was dieenvering the trieke ef the physical uni- verse and intnxieated hy the eeneatien nf newer in his hande, like an adeleaeent at the steering wheel 01' a new earmfer that while he fancied the end at his quest was near. Hut new, in ear time and quite suddenly he has realized that he is speeding faster than he knew dewn a strange read, in blackneaaeand that that read is infested b3! ether pewer-drunk, haIf-matured children. His hands are full of ingeninue gadgets, but he has lent his way. In his euehiened eenifert he yet is assailed hy- the fear that haunted hie primitive ferefathereethe fear at sudden deeti'netinn. Irteeperateljrr he is eailing fer lightefer teaehere et' integrity,F whe can interpret fer him the signs ieit fer hie guid+ anee by these whn have gene that way befere. -.: We at Gerham are preud in be preparing te answer that call. We seek te master the faete ef rnan'e experienee in erder te interpret hie preaent situatien an that he may have light by which te hnd the best read te- a peaeeful and jeyeua future. EL B. 16.1.

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