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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT October 9. 1974 TO THE CLASS OF 1975: Whenever a class is leaving, I have a feeling of remorse over what more could have been done for you. The world you are entering is in economic turmoil; there is much anguish. People are truly starving to death over great stretches of Africa south of the Sahara, the Sahel, and in India. Yet there is no doubt that the world has the resources to bring the advantages of civilization to all its people. I do not think that Lincoln has done enough to insure that you have a sound, accurate, basic knowledge of the nature of the world and of man. Perhaps it is impossible to acquire such education in the four short years of college. We may hope that Lincoln laid the foundation in science, psychology, mathemat- ics. sociology, so that you can develop with assurance those genuine, rele- vant. intellectual skills. As you leave Lincoln, we are at work to insure that there will be greater opportunity for rewarding employment for you and. es- pecially. that there will be greater opportunity for graduate study. We must produce more people with the highest training in all fields, but especially those crucial fields of economics, political science, engineering, mathematics and science. Strangely, we cannot accept that our students are moving into any of the learned professions in numbers commensurate with their popula- tion ratio — which. I think, is as good an index as any to start our arguments. Even in so popular a field as medicine, we were only 2%. There should be at least six times as many. These things I tell the National Board on Graduate Education, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, and the other groups with whom I meet. For you. I hope you do not believe that destructiveness and cruelty are innate in our species so that you are willing to accept a view of the future that gives us less dignity less freedom, less participation. You are apt to begin your working life in a city gripped now with urban hysteria, separated by a tremem- dous and disturbing distance from the place it could be for concerned human beings. Carry with you from Lincoln a historical sense of inevitable victory. Very fondly yours, Herman Russell Branson President
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