Oklahoma City University - Keshena Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE It would be easy for a grouch to conjure up the faults of youth and publish them abroad for the world to censure. That is not the role I would play. It is the virtues, the achievements, the beauty, the ideal interests of the young people in Oklahoma City University, proclaimed by portrait and chronicle in this issue of the Scarab, that I would glorify. One distinguishing virtue of youth is that it is not too old or too dead to be thrilled by every major interest of life. Let no man despise youth, for history records that many have achieved great things when they were still in the morning of life. At sixteen, Roger Bacon had sketched his philosophy; at the same age, Joan of Arc was hearing her voices; at seventeen, Edmund Spenser had published; at twenty, Sir Francis Drake had sailed, a captain; at twenty-five, Hannibal was commander-in-chief of the Carthaginian army; at twenty-seven, Napoleon had conquered Italy; at thirty, Jesus of Nazareth had begun the mightiest career any son of man has ever achieved. Even in college days many young people accomplish astonishing feats. What thrills they get out of life on the campus! The spirit of youth rises to the lure of scholastic endeavor, sports, competition on field and forum, social comradeship, the drama, music, art, beauty, friendship, love, as well as the play of humor and the flash of wit. The thrills of the college days of 1932-33 in O. C. U. are set forth in this edition of the Scarab with artistry and skill by the chosen representatives of the Junior Class. You will want to linger long over these pages as you turn them one by one. EUGENE M. ANTRIM THE 1933 SCARAB