Northern State University - Pasque Yearbook (Aberdeen, SD)

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E ARE living in a greatly changed and rapidly changing civil- ization. Consequently, the youth of today are perplexed and have difficulty in adjusting themselves to their environment. No longer can education for rugged individualism satisfy the needs of the times. We must have education that stresses the importance of proper human relations, education that not only recognizes the importance of developing personality but also gives the individual an abiding sense of his dependence on others. Individuals cannot live unto themselves alone but must learn to live cooperatively, if they would be adjusted to the civilization that has become interdependent in its social relations. Our present bewildered civilization is the result of too much em- phasis on material forces and too little emphasis on the spiritual, but a better day is dawning, I hope, when education will make for better hu- man relations through love of humanity and the brotherhood of man. A college fails in its mission today if it does not place emphasis on brother- hood and love as the great ideals that will bring about a new renascence in education. A life of service to mankind is the ideal life but it cannot be attained if one thinks only of self and material gain. It can result only from a person's realizing his responsibility to his country, to his parents, to his community, to his Creator, -and to all the .other agencies that have contributed to make him what he is. ' Education of the new renascence will bring about cooperation in every phase of life and by cooperation our bewildered civilization will become stabilized: and freedom, justice and democracy will become established on a Hrm foundation. When this time comes, as come it must, nations will wage war no more but they will cooperate in a com- monwealth of nations. Individuals will become world-servers as well as servers of their own country. A crisis in world affairs is upon us and war, the great enemy of progress, appears imminent. In this crisis America should assume leader- ship for sanity and peace by persistently refusing to become a partici- pant in any war conducted on foreign soil. With such leadership we can look forward to a type of education in our schools that will insure real progress in civilization through advance in knowledge being used for the welfare of mankind rather than for the detriment of mankind. CARL LAWRENCE. January 13, 1937.

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CARL GUSTAVUS LAWRENCE B.A., M.A., LL.D. President

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1 Vice-President SIDNEY R. LIPSCOMB Professor of Biological Sciences and Head of Department of Natural Sciences The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honoured by the fewg 3 Nothing to count in the world, or Church or State, But inwardly in secret to be great: I To feel mysterious Nature ever new, To touch, if not to grasp, her endless clue, And learn by each discovery how to wait, To widen knowledge and escape the praise: Wisely to teach because more wise to learn To toil for science, not to draw men's gaze, But for her love of self denial stern: That such a man could spring from our decays Fans the soul's nobler faith until it burns. E. F. SMITH