Northeastern Oklahoma A and M College - Viking Yearbook (Miami, OK)

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To strive, to improve and to be worthy is to su-cceed. The goal is for him who is Wor- thy. Education is but an aid to success and it only assists those who help themselves. The College is but a place for preparation. It offers the opportunity for growth and de- velopment to those who would attain. It can help but cannot do for those who Will not do for themselves. It may be the best friend but it may eliminate the weak and the Worth- less. May our College do all Within its pow- er to encourage and to promote those who are sufficiently ambitious to strive, to pre- pare and to accomplish. May we help to make life better and brighter for students, teachers and friends that We may be counted worthy of the good-will and support of our State. A M. R. FLOYD. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlgllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllIIIIllllIllillllllllllllllll

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The present trend in education is toward specialization even more than it has been in the past. Professional courses which, a few years ago, were covered by two or three yeais of study have been lengthened to four, five and in some cases six years. This, I be- lieve is the immediate cause for the Junior College. If the superstructure of the pyra- mid of education is to be built higher, it must needs be that the foundation shall be broad- er. The foundational courses should, how- ever, themselves l-ook toward the specialties which are to constitute the superstructure. So the Junior College of the future will, in my opinion, be a school of specialities and the young man or woman contemplating as pro- fessional or any specialized career will begin the study of the subject there. It is not enough merely to go to school to get an ed- ucation . I would urge every high school graduate to select his vocation as early in his Junior College life as possible. L. B. DRAKE. -Hi