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

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The President’s Message The Class of 1940 goes out to a world of struggle, doubt and danger Wars involve so-called civilized nations. Peoples arc fighting for selfish ambitions of dictators who have destroyed lives, liberties and spirits of men by tyrannical efficiency America has escaped war, but it cannot escape the perils of world revolution, economic stress and the dislocations of society that inevitably accompany world disaster. A century and a half of wonderful development in America under a form of government guaranteeing the fullest freedom and opportunity in all the world may have made us too sure that democracy for America is enduring. We arc beginning to suspect that interpretations must be made fitting a modern world, that economic procedures and political regulations must change in a new era, that rugged individualism of the open spaces and the chance to move must give and take for the common good of all individuals where masses mingle and must stay as the country has become stabilized, especially industrially When technological efficiency makes mill laborers too numerous and farmers too productive, social problems arise. You, as teachers, must understand these problems and interpret them. Recognize that democracies have problems. Accept the challenge of needed reforms, the obligations to think deeply and to act justly that all the virtues of democracy may be saved for America. Dictatorships can act more quickly than democracies. Some of them have eliminated unemployment quickly but to what end and at what fearful sacrifice of interests, liberties and spiritual rights we hold so sacred. Shall democratic processes prevail in the evolution of a more efficient government with liberty and justice for all? Will the destiny of America be safe when controlled by those you teach? Propagandists have sold Nazism, Stalinism and all the other “isms.” Minority groups are active in America. To induct into adulthood citizens capable of knowing and appreciating America, with some learning on the way, is your job. Ernest L. Silver

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Dear Alma Mater, To thee we sing. Memories you have given To our hearts will cling. Ever we will cherish Your faith in us all. No matter how distant We’ll e’er heed thy call. The torch of learning For us brightly gleams. May its name ever grow, Fulfilling our dreams. Now we arc facing The future in trust. Farewell, Alma Mater, Our College so just. 5

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