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

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The State School of Science is organized on the .assumption that the students arc sufficiently mature to assume personal responsibility and no longer need supervision. You are expected to prepare your work without supervision, on your own time, and on your own responsibility. Here there are many small groups working at very different processes, therefore methods and responsibilities arc explained to you as regular work begins in shops, laboratories and class rooms. Priniciples must Ik applied in all that you have done and intend to do. I he first and greatest nccssitv, however, is maturity of attitude. You have come to this school to get as much knowledge anti skill as possible in two years. You must have ambition and the will to study and learn. These all lead to the same end, the basis for your career and how successful you will be.

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March, 1942, brought the Navy Station to Wahpeton ami it was kept in operation until October, 1944. The School is nationally recognized for its success in training for particular jobs and is well-suited to the likings of veterans. Apartments and trailers furnish homes for them. A staff of approximately forty teachers is able to devote time and effort to all students needing it. A capable administration regulates the school functions and activities which are further extended by athletic games, library facilities and social life throughout the year.

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o m o x i o ox ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ For Tomorrow our generation will govern and lay plans, as did our fathers and forefathers, in order that our lives and the lives of our children may be Idled with prosperity, happiness, unbiased beliefs in religion, race and creed, and sound sincerity in the dealings in which we partake with other peoples and nations. You and I, as builders, must maintain the customs and traditions or Yesterday, and operate the industries and utilities of Today, as well as conform to constructive ideas and the progressive inventions of Tomorrow that will lead us, with a determined outlook, on the right foot to all the justifying glory and pre-eminating factors that arc in accordance with a good life. •Everyone abounds at the thought of the future and the secrets it beholds. There will always he the sorrow, excitement, pain, happiness, ambitions and dreams as we struggle for existence in this modern democratic country—ours to be proud of and to be bountiful 10 praise.