Millikin University - Millidek Yearbook (Decatur, IL)

Page 9 text:

Readers, first of all we do not profess to have covered all phases of life at Millikin; we do not pretend to have presented herein the last word in a field already crowded by our worthy predecessors. The last word has an undesirable mortuary connotation quite out of keeping in a book such as this that is never completed. It is well to remember that the pages of any yearbook should be turned backward as well as forward. Thus we deem it fitting to interpret the present by re-enacting the past. So on our ruby anniversary — the 40th year of the founding of our university by James Millikin — we present the old story he visualized but a good one with many ways of telling.

Page 11 text:

We have been more conscious of our alumni during the past year than any former Millikin undergraduate can remember. Hundreds of them have been getting together for reunions from coast to coast. Many of them have been away from the campus for 20 or 30 years or more, but they are still interested in Millikm. Thus the college lives on, far beyond our under- graduate days. The term, ' Millikin at Decatur , does not go far enough. Millikin exists wherever its graduates and former students live. More and more definitely each year, as we have progressed from the day we entered Millikin, we have felt in these corridors and classrooms the presence of those who have preceded us. Again and again we are reminded of the influence of some outstanding athletic talent. These leaders are not gone. They are still here in the standards and ideals they have set for us. Some of us have been better men and women because we have tried consciously to emulate them and the ideals which they strove to perpetuate. These ideals and these standards constitute the true Spirit of Millikin . To these illustrious graduates and former stu- dents of Millikin, in memory of the standards they set and the ideals they held high, and in apprecia- tion of their continuing interest in our welfare and that of the college, this book is affectionately ....