McMurry University - Totem Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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Dr. Gordon R. Bennett executive Vice-President One of the great by-products of one’s college experiences is lasting friendships. These life-long relationships serve as motivat- ing forces which spur us on in our activities. As the cultivation of friendship becomes a part of our personality and character, so the true friend becomes a part of us—one who shares our pleasure and helps bear our sor- rows. Cicero is quoted as saying, “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.” May we grow in friendships by offering ourselves as friends. CORDON R. BENNETT Executive Vice-President Dr. W. B. McDaniel Vice-President Dear Students and Friends: The distribution of this publication, as usual, heralds the end of another school year. As we reflect over the happenings of the year we will readily agree that it has l een both pleasant and profitable. McMurry College has grown in enrollment and stature and looks forward to the coming year with optimism and enthusiasm. I commend all of you for your loyalty to your school and your cooperative attitude. With new buildings in the immediate future and with your continued support and loyalty, the College cannot help but move forward to bigger and letter things. Sincerely, w. b. McDaniel Vice-President 15

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Dr. Harold G. Cooke Me Murry President a WHO l THE KDI GATED PERSON This i question that inI»1 i knl l»v every young man or Young nnmaii attending college. for prcstitnahlv our goes lo college to become educated. Ortainly more i» required lo attain on eduralion than merely lo live in a college dormitory for a period of four year . We v»ill admit that there are errtuin eilueational value in dormilorv life, hut more than this i required. There i» also more to an eduralion than silling in and through a certain number of classes each week over a |irriod of year», aim) listening more or less attentively to lecture» or di«rii»»ion on a variety of subject», and a a result of certain lent and examina- tion». after a period of cramming, to receive a uf- ficient numlier of pacing grade» lo l»e awarded a degree. Neither would il pa»» the requiiemrnt» of an education lo l»e elrrterl lo receive a degree, and on commencement day lo pul on a rolte. don a square cap, and lie draped with a hood, shake the hand of the president of the college and receive a diploma. This ceremony ha value , hut il certainly doe» not constitute an education. Who then i« the educated person? Thi is the question we must ask ourselves, if we ever expect to arrive. Find, to lie educated one must have acquired enough information about tin- world in which we live, and have learned enough aliout the course of human events during the life of man on this planet to feel at home in the world. It i a great thing lo come to the place where the circle of the light of truth aliout us reaches out lieyond our finger lips, and where our visible horizon have lircn pushed hack a sufficient distance that we can feel and experience the roomi- ness of life. No man’s world is bigger than the circle of the light of truth which he has acquired. When one lia» enlarged this circle so that he can lake in the earth, the sea, the sky. ami the present and the past to the dawn of recorded history, hr ha laid the founda- tion of an education. Being rducutcd is however vastly more than this. Information itself doe not constitute an eduralion. W e must come lo know ami understand something almu! what lias lieen recorded of the thought processes of the human race. Thi require a familiarity with the great literature of the age , an understanding of the development of the sciences and the art , a penetration into I he philosophies of thinking men. and acquaintance with the idealism, the moral laws, the forms of government, the system of economics, and the standard of human relationship . All of this i necessary to lie an educated peraon. Yet. thi» i« not enough. Thi world i« basically and primarily spiritual. Personality i ultimate reality and (osl i all in all. To be truly an educated person one must have come to a realization of this mystery and wonder, that spirit and personality and Cod are facts of experience, and most certain reality. Not until one come to know God a He ha revealed Himself in Christ and to know Him in Hi own experience of forgiveness inward grace, and spiritual power; and not until he ha come to know hi fellow men a spiritual beings of infinite potential worth, and the possibilities of his spiritual grandeur and nobility: and not until he has come to know himself a» a sinner avrd by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ and Hi atoning sacrifice — then, and not until then, i one a truly educated person. Then he ha come into hi own. « ro G. Cooke U

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