Millikin University - Millidek Yearbook (Decatur, IL)

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PRESIDENT JOHN C. HESSLER With the close of the present year Millikin will have had its doors open for thirty-five years. This is not a long time in the history of an institution, but long enough to give an indication of the orbit in which the University is likely to revolve. It is long enough, likewise, to give the institution a definite past . Even at Millikin some things happened way back when . The early catalogues and Millideks tell of events and persons that will not return; but we are impressed by the fact that the students and faculty of 1903 had their ideals for Millikin even as we of 1938. This thought gives us hope. As each new spring speaks of the con- tinuity of life in the out-of-doors, so each new Millidek surprises us with the discovery that succeeding generations of students will pick up the torch and carry it on. The children and grandchildren will be worthy of their sires. When those that come after us, thirty-five years from now, look at our like- nesses in the Millidek of 1937-38, and read of our activities in this fateful year, what will they say? May they think at least as well of us as we do of our predecessors of 1903-04! Class of 1973, we greet you from afar! May you realize in your own time the high hopes we have for Millikin today! page fourteen