Mills College - Mills Crest Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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lands in our San Francisco Bayg but the application of every student to the stu- dent's task is fundamental to continuing such phenomena. Continuity in human faith and in human effort remains funda- mental for constructive human ends. Even with a world enlarged and beauti- liecl before their eyes, youth can take nothing for granted. They are not only the heirs, they are the conservers and preservers of their inheritance, or itfhas no value. I-Iow shall we enlarge our hearts and in- form our minds to the contemporary challenge? How shall we be clearsighted enough to glimpse our particular visiong strong enough to reach our 'goal un- wearied? The youthful task well done hy the stu- dent is the only answer. If this can be achieved each college year may be really called an nnnus mirrabilis. 1--1-enslft 9.

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From the College Hearth, too, the hori- zon shows other miracles. Eastward, the hills are lowered so that Chabot Observa- tory with its star-pointing telescopes looks at us through new passes in the hills and seems to walk toward the cam- pus for closer company with library and laboratory. VVestward, obstructions are down and the sun sets gloriously in full view behind Lone Mountain, or Twin Peaks, or T am- alpais, across a metal bay. Yet, from Pine Top we hear lamenta- tions. Austria is lost in a Third Reich. Refugees without a country roam the world. The gold reserve of Czecho-S1o- vakia is carried to Berlin, despite the curses of the robbed. What has a college campus to do with world problems-with injustices? Even in a year that may be called miraculous, a college has age-old responsibilities to each student and to each question. In no way does the appearance of rare loveliness and shared enjoyment diminish these re- 'B sponsibilities. The campus is a place where daily is fulfilled the prophecy that youth shall see visions and shall run to- ward its goal without weariness. Eternal- ly it is for education to prepare youth for authority, to fulfill this heart-lifting promise, which is at the same time a life- hlling task. Visions which should be like XfVords- worth's vision splendid . . . trailing clouds of glory, become testimony of death and disaster, or of the foul hend himself. Unless a mind is furnished with knowledge orderly in arrangement, rea- sonably interpreted, youth's visions may be those in which terror or cruelty or vio- lence, or all of these, have a part. How can youth fulhll the prophecy of the setting up of a goal if there is not con- sideration, elimination, and selection of one? How can youth have the vigor to fulfill the promise of light and swift mo- tion if there is not bodily strength? Faith may remove mountains and bring telescopes near, it may bring up new is-

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