Millikin University - Millidek Yearbook (Decatur, IL)

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Again we re-enact the past by viewing the administrative policy of the university. Originally an Industrial College with Academy courses Millikin followed the various educational trends from liberal arts to the vocational emphasis of today. However, the dominating factor of our policy ' s evolution has been the basic standard as expressed by President Taylor in his dedicatory address at the opening of the college: This college stands for higher planes of scholarship, for loftier ideals of manhood and womanhood, for the dignity of all labor, for the preservation and maintenance of the institutions which have been the bulwark of society and the crowning glory of our mod- ern civilization. Its creed will be the common creed of the best minds and the best blood of the race; its mission to contribute, as may be in its power, to the promotion of all that is best among men.

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PfiESIDfOT JOHO C.HtSSLtR In this year ' s Millidek we are thinking m a special way of the alumni and former students of the college. Inevitably the graduates of 1941 look at the graduates of the early 1900 ' s and wonder how the college of today looks to these elder members of the Millikin Family. In a peculiar sense this has been a year of reunions — east, west, and here in Illinois. As was to be expected, the graduates of other years have been scattered far and wide by the mobile currents of American life. As freshmen they came to the college out of many diverse environments. All too soon a Commencement Day came to each one, and he was swept out into the complex existence which we call the American Way. In comparison with others the Millikm grad- uate has held his own. In fact many have really taken in earnest the aspirations, ideals, dreams, and ambitions of other years and have woven them into the pattern and fabric of the common life of our America. What of the future? The graduates of the early years looked to us for the realization of their hopes. So the graduate of 1941 must look forward to those who are yet to come. These will contribute elements of strength and insight, of appreciation and cooperation to the society of their own day. They will relay our message of cheer and good will to the fresh- men and the alumni of the future. 14