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

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The President’s Message James Russell Lowell wrote, “Our ancestors sought a new country; what they found was a new condition of mind.” Eternal change is no less characteristic of mind than of material things. Revolutions and world wars arc both cause and effect of changes seemingly sudden but really resulting from forces of long development. When total war comes as the only means of peaceful adjustment, terrible things happen to those societies in the right as well as those in the wrong. However high the ideals of any civilization, war necessarily destroys some fineness, not to mention death, disease, debt, and despair. So your class goes into service with the supreme job of saving for our post-war society, all things possible for renewing and strengthening the ancient and eternal values, yet wisely sensing the modification of ways of life in adaptation to a new world order. It will be the greatest test of your wisdom and courage to choose those sterner things of ancient good, to keep, and those newer things of primrose hue, to discourage, that the ravages of war may quickly be succeeded by the better new day. A special danger of your young lives is too great susceptibility to preachments of the “reformers”, whose youth, inexperience, and fondness for radical philosophy give force if not wisdom to their words. It is interesting to observe how many of these “reformers” are themselves reformed when responsibility and maturity make them wiser. Watch for new truth always; judge passing sophistries with great care. Ernest L. Silver

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PLYMOUTH CREED Perseverance in effort ideal. Loyalt to yaity s Yearning for service Anemones tliat Mess and turn Opportunity for self-expression Unity witli kumanity Trust in God Honor to country and self

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