Macalester College - Quid Nunc Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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, -, W . , , ,,,,,-, The President's Message ASKED several seniors what a president of a college ought to put into a little message to his students, something to last for three whole years. One said, Tell them to look far enough ahead and see the great and fundamental realities, and work toward them unceasinglyf' Another suggested, Say that there is nothing in the world that the modern college student can not do, if he just thinks he can do it.'y Another advised, 6'Ask them to make their minds broad enough to take in a great many sides of the world they live in. The first adviser was talking about the sacred duty of making one's ambition big enough to grow toward. If students do not see a splendid world, invisible to many less fortunate and ambitious folk, and learn how to work marvelously to gain it, and keep everlastingly in the Great White Way that leads to the coveted goal, they have not yet realized their high privilege as college men and women. I want to have a boundless faith in my students and in their capacity to make their mark where the worldls life is most abundant, and I can possess that confi- dence in them if I can be assured that they will grow forever and forever. The second adviser meant well, but spoke without the enlightening experience that arrives only after failures and disappointments. Though modern students possess the genius of intellectual and spiritual giants, the truth must be recog- nized, even in youth-the impossible cannot always be accomplished. Yet I am young enough to believe that red-blooded students will try to gain heights that no other feet have touched. They will not be daunted by the sight of an arduous and rugged way. They will be supremely bold and try. As long as life remains and the fires of hope blaze on the mountain tops, they will dare to go on, and on, and on. The third adviser was absolutely right. It is a sad case if students can go to college and come out with narrowed minds and sequestered sympathies. They deny the college that gave their knowledge impetus. They eschew the conse- cration of the faculty they have lived beside for four years. If life is insignificant and petty, and the world is but a place to eat a mouldy crust in, the college spirit has been missed altogether. I ask to feel that my students have faith in the best life of the world. and in the power of God. I beg to believe in my students as possessing a great confidence in themselves, and in their genius for work. I pray to hope that my students will it themselves to serve varied interests, touch many sides of knowledge with simple power, genuinely love life, and sincerely mingle with all people. 13

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DR. ELMER ALLEN BESS PREs1m3NT. 12

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Board of Trustees Ospicizizs THOMAS SHAW, Pifesideiit - - - R. C. JEFFERSON, First Vice President C. D. D.-XYTON, Second Vice Pifesideizt B. H. SCHRIBER, Secretary - - C. E. B'IACKEAN, Treasurer - - MEMBERS W. J. MCCABE - - - THOMAS B. JANNEY - - JOHN S. MCLAIN - - REV. H. C. SWEARLNOEN, D. D. - E. B. KIRK' ---- REV. JOHN E. BUSHNELL, D. D. WATSON P. DAVIDSON - - P. L. HOWE - - - GEORGE W. WISHARD - - B. O. CHAPMAN - ANGUS MCLEOD - St. Paul St. Paul Minneapolis St. Paul - St. Paul - Duluth Minneapolis Minneapolis St. Paul - St. Paul Minneapolis - St. Paul Minneapolis Minneapolis St. Paul - St. Paul 14