John Tarleton College - Grassburr Yearbook (Stephenville, TX)

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T. O. WALTON, LLD, PRESIDENT AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE OF TEXAS AND THE BRANCH COLLEGES

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DEAN J. THOMAS DAVIS Ianuary 27, 1943. Dear Students: These semesters represented by your Grossburr Staff involve much more comprehension, effort, labor, sacrifice, and determination than has been characteristic of your lives at any time heretofore. Your Grassburr represents three semester gradu. ating classes, and you have cooperated wonder- fully in all your efforts to produce the Grassburr under difficult and trying circumstances. I admire your loyalty to your homes and the profound respect for your parents which you have displayed since you have been in our institution. That loyalty to home life has led you to be loyal to the John Tarleton Agricultural College and is guiding you through these stressful days in your efforts to be of service to our nation in war or in peace, as the opportunity may come to you in times which are to follow. Many of your classmates have entered directly and indirectly into the service of the nation in war fare or into the production of materials for warfare, Likely before these lines are printed, most of you will have entered into the service in the defense of those ideals held dear to every American citizen. Although the student attendance at the John Tarleton Agricultural College has not been as large as usual during the past three semesters. you have made a remarkable contribution to the spirit, the ideals, and to the permanent character istics which go to make a great and abiding instie tution. This college is now forty-three years in age from its first foundation. It was founded in the spirit of sacrifice and devotion to a fair chance in the lives oi all the people. You have helped to preserve the spirit of Iohn Tarleton, himself, who said at the time of making his will that it was his desire that his accumulations in life should go to ward helping worthy boys and girls to have a fair chance in the competition of life. American democ- racy demands a fair chance for all and is trying to make that chance possible in a greater degree than any other nation in the world by providing an opportunity for an education for all the youth of every class and kind. Let me congratulate you for maintaining, sus- taining, and enlarging upon that ideal of life Sincerely, ll THOMAS DAVIS Dean Page 1 6