McMurry University - Totem Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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 •' The only way to have a friend is to be one. —Emerson If a man does not make new acquaintances as he passes through life, he will find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. —Johnson Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doub- ling our joy and dividing our grief. —Addison He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. —Con lucius

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Student £ife Center On Wednesday afternoon. March 12, Dr. Harold G. Cooke passed a crowning day in his life of Christian service. From his hospital bed. where he was convalescing from a broken neck and other injuries suffered in a car wreck last February, the robust president had the privilege of making a momentous an- nouncement to his board of trustees. Mrs. J. M. Radford had announced that she would build the McMurry student life center. The news was brought to Dr. Cooke's bedside by H. M. Harrison, manager of the Radford properties and a McMurry trustee. The McMurry president was ovecome and crying with joy upon hearing the news. Mrs. Radford will erect the student life center, largest of the proposed buildings of the Greater McMurry, as a memorial to her late husband and her family. Work on the gothic structure, estimated to cost about $350,000, will begin as soon as materials are available. Mrs. J. M. Radford

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Administration PRESIDENT HAROLD G. COOKE Zhe President's Message An educational institution and those connected with it. both as faculty members and students, are pri- marily concerned with values. for their chief objective is the creation, discovery, development and per- fecting of that which is of true value.” Vulue. as such, is a spiritual concept, and does not reside in the material, but in personality. All ma- terial values are related to and derived from personality. The value of real estate is measured in footfalls. The value of stocks and bonds is measured by integrity of character. Tire value of money is the stability of human institutions. The value of towels and art is human appreciation. We need to understand the na- ture and significance of true values in order that we might seek to possess ourselves with that which is truly worthwhile, and seek to cultivate and develop that which is valuable in the lives of others. An institution of higher learning that has such a philosophy of education is essentially a Christian institu- tion as true values are spiritual concepts and have to do with personality, mind, and spirit. Ultimate value has its residence in the character of God and is changeless and eternal. Hence the quest after value and its inward possession in both the realm of mind and spirit is a spiritual enterprise. Tins is what gives McMurry College its true significance and moaning. Our persistent purpose is that evc-ry young man and young woman who passes through and graduates from McMurry College shall be possessed of those values that will make their life purposeful and rich, and invested with that which tran- scends time and space and circumstance and links itself with God and immortality. DR. HAROLD G. COOKE.