Old Trail School - Vestigia Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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our Seniors of '47 For more than seventeen years you have experienced education in various forms-studying under widely differing teachers, working and playing with your friends, living at home with other members of your families, participating in church and community life. ln a few weeks you embark on what for many of you will be a final voyage into the waters of so-called formal education. It is about this final voyage that l would speak to you now. Very few people gain real values from college. For many it means courses studied in a perfunctory fashion, examinations crammed for and passed, a whirl of social activity. Too few young men and women find through college experiences their place in the scheme of things. The excitement of science, guidance from the engrossing tale of man's rise from savagery and his apparent return, the impact of important thoughts of great men and women, the thrill of perfecting language skills, the joy of creating and interpreting in the arts-these are relatively unknown to many who call themselves college educated people. These people have the credits and the degrees -they have the symbols, but the realities have passed them by. We have tried to train you to be wary of symbols, of veneers, of the ex- ternal appearance of things. We have tried to train you to want real values, to want the genuine substance of the experiences which education offers. We have tried to help you evaluate your aptitudes and interests in order that your choices may be intelligent, in order that you may find your niche and become productive, contributing citizens. I pray that we have not failed too badly. ROBERT L. AMSDEN.