Lycoming College - Arrow Yearbook (Williamsport, PA)

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President ' s Message Students of Lycoming College: You have done me the honor to ask for a brief message for the 1951 Arrow. I appreciate this request as it gives me an opportunity which I am glad to use. In deciding what to write without repeating what has been said in more than a score of previous messages I have natural Iv been giving the matter considerable thought. A comjiarison between Dickinson Seminary of 1921 and L coming College of 1951 could be made wliich would show the growth of tie college, and it would also illustrate the in creasino eneral interest in hi iier education. The social customs as reflected in a comparson of student social acti ities ol ' - ' )2 and 1 ' - ' 51 would be interesting to manv. The enlarged and beautiful campus, new buildings, larger facuitv. modern laboratory and other facilities could furnish material for se eral messages. The unsettled times in which we live and the conflict of ideologies on .i world scale and their effect on voung people and their future could be explored at great length. Instead of anv of these I am going to quote an old Latin proverb: Carpe diem. Grasp the opportunitv might be a free translation of the meaning I have in mind. There ha e alwavs been growth, change, ad anccmcnt. They are taking place today on a larger scale and at a more rapidly accelerated jiace than at an |ire ious time in history. Changes and jMogress at Lvcoming reflect in miniature some ii( the things ha|i|iening on a world scale. As students let me urge ou to be a part of the worthwhile things happening around you. Seize the opportunitv. C ' lirpe diem! Hnibrace the da — xour dav— the greatest of all da s —when a new world is struggling to be born. Very sir ncereh ()ur Iriend.

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This olume is the third to carry the message of Lvcomino Collese. Next year 0,00 J the Arrow will tell the story of the first class admitted to Lycoming under its present four-year degree-granting history. This volume of the Arrow is, therefore, the con- necting link between the present .iiul the p;ist represented b ' time-honored Dickinson Semin,u , so justlx bcio ed b tiioiis.inds ho now iiail L coming as their Alma Mater. None oi us should e ' cr forget, or in an a belittle, these earlier ears during which the Seminary laid the seeds that brought, from the college to which her graduates went, the early recognition and accreditation in which we all now take justifiable pride. Our present position, where we enjoy the confidence of our sister institutions, places a real obligation on us all, students, alumni, and faculty, to keep the flame burning brightly and the torch held high, in order that what ground has been gained may not be lost, and that our tiitme may be worthx of our past. WILLIAM HOFFMAN Dean ' s Comment