Greensboro College - Echo Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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and well. With a true knowledge of what is right and just, the faculty have given instruction, and her students have received it dili- gently. Difficult problems which have arisen have been sanely solved. The century of her exist- ence has indeed filled Greensboro College with wisdom. Founded by the North Carolina Methodist Conference, Greensboro College has ever maintained her status of a Christian college. Recognizing her supreme obliga- tion to the church, she places emphasis upon the Word of God. worship, and her own program of religious training and service. Courses in Religious Education, organizations for spiritual growth, close affiliation with the church, and special worship services fill the religious needs of her students, and it is this Christian atmosphere that has sent from her doors scores of consecrated women. So today we proudly celebrate the centennial of her founding and honor those who have brought her to this significant landmark of her history. But this year is not an end — only a signal for the hundreds of girls who will come to these halls to do their share in building an even better Greensboro College as their tribute to those daughters of the first hundred years. May the girls to come hold ever dear the creed which has been our guide through the years: We BELIEVE in being rather than in seeming; in the devotion to high ideals; in daring to do our duty as we understand it. We believe in having an attentive eye. a listening ear, a busy brain: in keeping the mind clear and bright, filling it with wholesome thoughts of life; in losing ourselves in useful industry. We believe in being worthy at all times; in having grim energy and resolute cour- age for the conquest of fear; in gaining confidence in our ability. We believe in service; in doing kind deeds; in thinking kind thoughts; in being strong, gentle, pure and good, steady, loyal, and enduring. We believe in reverence for the truth, in humility, in great aspirations and high ambitions, in toiling ever upward. We believe in cultivating the bright virtue of patriotism and the holy passion for friendship. We believe in studying hard, thinking quietly, speaking gently, acting frankly; in listening with open hearts to the winds, the trees, the stars, and the birds, to babes and sages. in doing all bravely, bear- We believe in being glad, in loving all. in hating none ing all cheerfully, awaiting all occasions, hurrying never. We believe in striving to gain sound knowledge, not content to simply know, but determined to use knowledge for the highest purpose. We believe in man and woman, in God ' s unending love, and in the future.

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TO THE GREENSBORO COLLEGE GIRLS OF YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW who were, are, and ever will be sincerely grateful, loyal, and loving daughters of their Alma Mater WE DEDICATE THIS, OUR CENTENNIAL ECHO