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March 23, 1971 To the Class of 1971 From all sides come assurances that you are graduating in the time of a revolution. Whether you can feel that now or will years from now when you return again to these pages — either position may make you question what did Lincoln do for me during such a significant period. I hope that you go forth as a true individual that you have so employed your time, your contacts, your involvements that you are a creative problem solver rather than a receptacle for facts. Above all, I think, this means you recognize the requirements for intelligent decision making about your personal life, your society, your world. And you should be tough-minded, not easily swayed by the emotional appeals of some deceptive illogic. High in the list of awarenesses rests that recognition of the earth as a fragile, little, vulnerable globe hurtling along some unknown path in the deep immensity of space. It is all we humans have; we must learn to care for it. Lincoln has not been at all neutral in its commitments. The activities have been di- rected to turning you on about the harsh social realities. Your classes have not been isolated disciplines severed from the real world. Your experiences have ranged from understanding the power grip of an Ova Tjimba man, living in the Baines Mountains of northern Kaokoveld, South West Africa, as he sat cracking open a long bone to ex- tract the marrow, to the thought processes of a Montaigne writing:
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To the Class of 1971 March 23, 1971 Chaque homme port la forme entiere de l'humaine condition. Recognizing in this wise saying and in that skilled activity the essence of man as thinker and doer — nei- ther activity superior to the other. Both necessary to function as man. 1971 is not a good year for the 2340 American colleges and universities. Costs are climbing out of hand; resources are dwindling; even the great prestigious institutions are announcing large deficits and bemoaning the necessity of increasing tuition and fees. And eclipsing these outward signs of difficulty are the doubts as to program, stance, and emphasis. Lincoln is not immune. Yet these experiences for Lincoln like your experiences should toughen us, making us less complacent. Perhaps instilling in us a little fear for our world. An old sailor es- caping from slavery in Virginia, remarked on his long life, A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, we do only be drowned now and again. So it is with all our worlds. Our best wishes and sincerest hopes go with you as you seek the answers to the immense problems of the 21st century. Cordially yours, Herman R. Branson President
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