North Dakota State College of Science - Agawasie Yearbook (Wahpeton, ND)

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 944 OLcrfg cuvaiiz ontznth Message from Governor Moses Message from the Editor Administration Classes Activities Sports Features Roll of Honor U. S. Navy on Our Campus Patrons Roll of Students

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 944 ciimiiz Eciicatio n HE ADVENT of war brings about many changes in our way of life. Far from the least of these is the desire of youth to do his share in the fight. Due to this fact many young men and women have put aside their education for the time being to go into the armed forces, defense industries, and other positions created by the war to speed our country to victory. Many of these youths would be furthering their education within these very walls at this time if the war had not deterred them. To these young men and women who have put victory ahead of education and are not with us today because they are fighting or working for this victory, we, the staff, proudly dedicate this 1944 Agawasie.

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 944 MESSAGE FROM GOVERNOR MOSES 'This book is most fittingly dedicated to the young men and women who have left the School of Science to make their direct contribution to victory. These voting jH'ojde have interrupted their education to support and defend the principles of free speech, free thought and free choice which have made that education possible. They defend, for themselves and for future generations. the right to learn, unhampered b dog-ma and p ditical idea logy. i hey seek to guarantee. for tho.e who would learn, access to all sources ot knowledge and the right to find tlu truth in their own way. free from the influences ot fear and prejudice. Above all. they desire to safeguard for America the opportunity for an enlightened and reasonable electorate, capable of individual thought and determination based upon thorough and accurate knowledge. There are no greater contrasts than those which exist between our system of free education and the propaganda agencies to which educational systems have degenerated in the dictator nations. Dictatorships thrive only in an atmosphere of fear and hatred and intolerance—an atmosphere in which the seeker after truth is told what he must believe and to what sources he must go for his information. Freedom can not live among a people who have lost the knowledge of freedom. any more than despotism can survive among a people to whom the fruits of freedom are known and understood. I be gieatne s of our tatr and our nation has always been dependent upon the enlightenment of our people.. A high degree of enlightenment is even more essential now than ever before, for the just and lasting peace for which we now light and work and pray can only he achieved bv xvisc. tolerant, and courageous leadership springing front and supported by a poop|c w|losc deliberate judgment is based upon knowledge of the problems they face. Upon those of os who remttin .it home rests the burden of protection our free institutions gainst encroachment and desrUK.,j„ (nrc s „.ilhil, ,|u. n:lti„n while these young men and women ... ours defend as, enenu who would utterly dsasiroy them. 1-el us resolve that no may..... anJ „„ u.k ;igi|ancc „„ ()„r part :,v mdan-er the future f„r vv|lic|, „„„. SKrifict.