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

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Ernest Leroy Silver The President's Message The graduates of a teachers’ college should have acquired something more than learning. “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” It is impossible to get in a few years of inexperienced youth more than a little learning. In these days of rapidly changing conceptions of political, economic, and social values, doubt arises as to what learning and what precepts are vital and fundamental. Your generation meets perplexity on every side, for your elders and teachers as well as yourselves. This means for them and you, if success is to be the outcome, hard living, not ease; adjustment, not conformity; improvement, not conservation. Changing times are times of opportunity. Your Alma Mater has a right to expect of you a keener insight into the meaning of education for new times, a readier adjustment to ways of economic living in a land of plenty, a more skillful technique in the teaching process, and a higher code for the teaching profession. Unless you and your fellow graduates throughout America rise to these expectations, democracy is not so safe as we have fondly cherished. The youth of to-day must live the life and times of to-morrow. Ambition without intelligence is not enough; hope without labor is futile; the past is gone; the future impends.

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The Tower in Winter

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