University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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-yviSV Jj, ' ig - J - ■ . -S vVt. ' ' - ' ' HE time spent in college is the most unique period of one ' s life. It is a period of romance. While it is real life in a com- plete and definite sense, it yet has the glamour of unreality about it. The sordid things of life do not obtrude themselves; the fierceness of the competition of after years has not yet come ; life has not taken on the aspect of a battle ; and while college men are critical they are at the same time generous. The thing that stands as the personification of all this is the institution itself, the alma mater to which we are responsible, the mother toward which our loyalty ought to be forever undimmed. It has happened to many a man that the relation he bears to his alma mater is one of the most beautiful, in- spiring and ennobling things that life brings to him. He has quite missed one of the most spiritual things about his life if he has not had this experience and if he has not learned what it really ought to mean to be a college man. All of this begets a great obligation. In the first place it is a material obli- gation. No one, whether he goes to an institution on a private foundation or to a state university, ever pays for his own education. Someone else pays for it. He is therefore beholden to others. He is in fact beholden to society itself, to the age that preceded him and handed on these great instruments of civilization to the coming generation. In the second place it is a spiritual obligation that arises through the demands of honor and integrity. One can- not use such instruments and receive such benefits without being subject to the demands of the highest honor that these obligations be lived up to by loyal service. From every aspect, therefore, those that graduate from the University of Kansas in June, 1912, owe the finest and most untiring loyalty to the insti- tution that has mothered them, and it is nothing short of base ingratitude to forget this great obligation. Most of you will receive no other scholarship brand than that placed upon you by the University of Kansas, and your degree can be worth no more than the institution that gives it. I therefore call upon you in the name of the University of Kansas for the highest kind of loyalty and generosity toward your alma mater in the years to come. FRANK STRONG Chancellor. m3 , S -

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7 The Board of Regents of the University of Kansas ( ' it ' 4M i m 3 t W ' € i Hon. William Allen White Emporia Hon. Scott Hopkins Topeka Hon. Leon S. Cambern Erie Hon. Rodney Elward Hutchinson Hon. Chas. F. Foley Lyons Hon. James Kimball Salina Page 6 ' ! :?CJ ' ' ?!?fe- ' ' fvPi ' ■•= ' ' 7■ ' ■r::r5. ' ?Sv • ' ' ' ' ' i ' U? ' r-rf-i-La- ifo- ' ' i|%u| 5 •iiM