Plymouth State University - Conning Tower Yearbook (Plymouth, NH)

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Harry Preble Swett.

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T he Conning Tower of I 93 1 MARION FRANCES STEARNS Nashua, N. II. Representative (1); Glee Club (1); Pageant (1); Pan Athenaeum (2) (3); Class Pres. (2); Chief Justice (2); Speaker of the House (2); Christmas Paegant (2) ; Governor (3); Russell House Councilor (3); Ass’t. Bus. Mgr. (»f Class Book (4); A. A. (1) (2) (3) (4). “She'. in for fun anti in for larks, Hut still to duty's call she harks. Words fail to describe Marion. Look at her list of activities ami her story is told as to what she means to her classmates and to P. N. S. As a leader, as a friend, as a merry maker, Marion is always at hand. A LI EN E NANCY TAYLOR Westminster, Vt. “Bobbie ; “ Al. Class Vice-President (4); Class Secretary Treasurer (3); Social Club (4); Student Gov. Council (3); Associate Justice (4); Pan-Athenauun (3) (4); Representative (3); Glee Club (2); Photograph Committee (4); Athletic Association (I) (2) (3) (4). “ True worth is briny, not seeming. Aliene came from the Green Mountain State to join our class at P. N. S. Her ability to question will carry her far along the road to success. Add to this trait a charming personality, a keen sense of humor, together with much efficiency, and we have a most enviable combination. We prophesy that you will be successful in all that you do. Aliene. [25]

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The Conning Tower of 1931 To the Graduates of the Four Year History Course I will talk with you about your profession. Let ns begin rather abruptly without preliminaries by applying the law of excluded middle. Your labor of making better the lives of others either has a meaning that transcends human existence, or it does not have. The difference between the two is vastly greater than that between white and black or light and darkness— these are only faint metaphors. In much educational writing and thinking the attempt is made to ignore this distinction. Let us not try to avoid the unavoidable. If tin fundamental nature of reality is essentially mental, then the process of education—the process of making better the life of another—has deathless significance. This is the philosophy of education in a sentence. If you accept this philosophy, you will find it an unfailing source of inspiration. Salaries, comforts, numbers, locations are of minor interest compared with the motive of moulding an immortal spirit. This philosophy will help you to resist—possibly with impatience—tin spell of speciously expressed theories and programs of conduct frequently found in current literature. When pupils come to you with superficial beliefs or lowly desires, you can more unerringly suggest a better thought or way. because your standard is high and comprehensive. Your philosophy will lighten the burden of drudgery, for you will know that details are necessary in a world where there are particular facts. It will help you to distinguish between big and little things, because your own thoughts are large. It will aid you in being patient when others might be impatient. It will keep you cheerful, because you will always have something to look forward to. All this will react upon your own characters, but you will not need to dwell much upon this. If you will purposely reflect not infrequently upon your broadest principles as, to repeat in another phrase, “that the last word in metaphysics is mind”, you will test the truth of your principles, you will find in them increasing meaning, and you will be able better to apply them. Spinoza said Homo coijital. Some think more than others. 11. P. Swett. 127|