Grand View University - Viking Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Twenty-five Years Of College Teaching Twenty-five years, one-fourth of a century, is a sort of a road mark. As I figure it, that is the number of years I have taught in college. And it has not all been done in one school, but in live of them: State Teacher's College, Kearney, Nebr.g State Teacher's College, Aberdeen, S. D., Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa, Fort Dodge Junior College and Grand View College. The college at Aberdeen was the largest, and Grand View, I think, is the best. An age which demands immediate, visible and tangible results does not honor a teacher highly. It is the salesman who is the man. While I have tried my hand at selling Fuller brushes, fly spray, hog dip, stereoscope views and furniture, I chose to teach, and I am happy that I did. It has given me the opportunity to be with young people. There is contagion in their happiness. It has also given me an opportunity to associate with great minds. Few of us meet many really great men personally, for they are always rare. But many great men have left their best thoughts in books. Many of these books I have read, and they have enriched my mind with many good things. At all times and in all places the young, at least some of them, will respond to a great challenge. I have never lost faith in that great truth so well expressed by Emerson in these lines: So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers, Lo, thou must! The youth replies, I can! ALFRED C. NIELSEN. -10-

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A. C. AMMENTORP English, History LESTER CADWELL Commercial A. E. FARSTRUP Bible, Christian Education and Service -12-