Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Preface ANY thousand years have passed since the dawn of recorded history, and no two of them have brought exactly the same events. Hundreds of millions of people are now living on the earth and no two of them are precisely alike. Each has his own life, his own background, contacts and experience, his own sentiments, perplexities and aspirations. Nor are any two college classes the same. They differ in the nature of their membership, and still more in the type of man who exerts the strongest influence upon his fellows. They are unlike in their homogeneity and their cohesion, in the amount of personal independence and enterprise. The class does not exist until it enters college, but in four years it attains its permanent character as a body. The seeds sown here bear fruit hereafter. The fabric woven of many threads endures. N o friendships are more close and lasting than those of college days. It is the time when habits are formed, when a large part of the foundation of.later life is laid,--sometimes laid without attracting much attention, almost unconsciously, through conduct ruled by principle, and by learning to rate in a true scale the manifold objects of endeavor. In later life the members of every class have vastly different careers. Some of them become far more distinguished, more widely useful, or more penetrating in the things that affect deeply human life and thought, than their classmates, or they themselves foresaw. Character, imagination, resourcefulness, and not least purpose, are the decisive factors. Partly innate, but all pliant to a chal- lenge, these qualities may be evoked, and like all others they respond most readily in youth. The college is a measureless opportunity which few lnen fully see, and none can wholly grasp. But the offer is free, and here as in later life each man can get what he has the vision to seek. The class of 1931 has the power to achieve, and hence a claim to expect, a notable life history. Q, -gbwfeceu M1066 A

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