Harding College - Petit Jean Yearbook (Searcy, AR)

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TO MY GIRLS EVERYWHERE: A worthy woman is, next to His Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, God's greatest gift to the world. In these restless days when the nations of earth have swung so far from God, the ideas and ideals of many women have kept pace with the times. Their slogan seems to be What the men of our acquaintance do, we may do if we choose. Certainly, my doors, there is no respect of persons with God and l w0u1d not contend for a minute that a cigarette between the lips of a girl, on oath, a swallow of whiskey from a pocket flask, a mixed drink at some road house, or moral laxity in general is worse in God's sight in the woman than in the man, but I contend most earnestly that if women do not call a halt, men must arise in their manhood for their own protection as well as for the protection of the race or the world is doomed. I thank God for you, my girls. You have not always done as I would have you do, neither have I always set you a worthy example, but there are few of you who will not make the world a better place because you have lived. I am not given to platitudes, but I pray God to help you realize the power He gave you for good or evil when He made you women. WOODSON HARDING ARMSTRONG Dean of Women

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DEAN'S MESSAGE TO ADMINISTRATION Today we are passing through a period of mental and spiritual chaos comparable to that of the Renaissance. Just when the world was settling down to a dream of peace and Utopian prosperity something startling and cyclonic has swept it completely off balance. Social values, and ideals that had seemed as fixed as Gibraltar, have been shaken to their foundations, and thousands are facing the future with blank questioning. Yet the picture is not dark, for chaos is only the material out of which new cosmic order will emerge. As teachers and administrators we are called upon to do our part to interpret and direct the caurse of things, out of confusion formulating those principles of abiding value that must govern, stabilize, and idealize the changing order. We are fortunate in having a new generation of students mare deeply earnest as a whole than those of the '20'5, and it will be our pleasure to reSpond with frankness and enthusiasm to their serious desire for training and for an understanding of the world in which they live. L. C. SEARS Dean of Administration

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JA N. ARMSTRONG W. W. PACE M A, LL D. B. A. Ancnent Language and Rehgion Secretary Enard of Directors. B. F. RHODES L. E. PRYOR M A. M A, Socx'nl Sciences SOCIGI Scwenccs L C SEARS JOHN COPELAND Ph. D, M A English Language and Literature Engllsh Language and Lneraturc FRANCES RUBY LOWERY MAURINE L. RHODES M. A. M. A. Enghsh Literature Engllsh and Spanish