Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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HAROLD F. GRIM . Dean of the University ♦i To the Class of 1953: It has been well said nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character. As a young man seeks his place in God's program his usefulness can grow in the following ways; (1) By increasing his knowledge. Enlarging one's knowledge is like placing a bright light in darkness; the brighter the light the greater the circumference of the circle of darkness. (2) By strengthening his courage. The exhibition of courage helps others to be courageous. Courage is the first of human qualities because it guarantees all others. (3) By living the highest ideals. Ideals are meant to be lived. By living ideas you will develop your thinking processes. I feel sure that your association with Lincoln University has given you opportunity to formulate lofty ideals. These may have germinated slowly in your heart but, nursed honestly, will be expressed by good and useful deeds in every day living. -7 ) JC . S. W ANDREW E. MURRAY . During your years at Lincoln you have shared in the power of a great tradition. The tradition is simple, but fundamental—the affirmation that freedom is best expressed through an inclusive fellowship. More important than the facts you have learned, is the life you have lived in comradeship is one of the burning needs of our times for if men cannot live together then they will be condemned to die in lonely isolation. May your lives demonstate to a cynical world the creative power that lies in an inclusive human fellowship. . . . Dean of the Seminary 13

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HORACE MANN BOND . . . President of the University Lincoln University was proposed in 1853: the class of 1953 graduates one hundred years after the great idea was projected into a world that was generally hostile to the notion that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. In 1854, and in successive years, the idea took material form in the institution that is now your Alma Mater. Great changes have taken place in the world during the past century; it is the glory of the idea that is Lincoln University, that its graduates have profoundly advanced the dissemination of the great idea, of the equal brotherhood of all men under God, everywhere in the world. May you, the Class of 1953, as notably promulgate, practice, defend, and extend this greatest idea in the intellectual and spiritual life of Mankind. 7i

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Dean of Men JAMES B. MacRAE The changes in your generation have probably been more rapid than at any other time in man's history. While this may seem to be a trite statement made by successive generations it is none the less true. It is to be hoped that you have acquired at Lincoln a readiness to adapt yourselves to desirable changes. However, there are knowledges, skills, values and virtues, which are abiding parts of the human heritage that you have acquired, also. One of the great and challenging tasks which confronts you is to be able to reconcile the sense of pattern and direction deriving from the racial heritage with the sense of experiment and innovation deriving from science PAUL KUEHNER...............................Registrar To the Class of 1953: Present world conditions may not promise a bright and easy future; life may prove to be less carefree than you are expecting; yet we hope that you will go forth resolved to make good. With keen interest we have observed your progress and development during your college days, and we will continue to be interested in you, wishing you success, health and happiness. » 14