Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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The N assaa H erald to man. We have found ourselves mistaken in hasty judg- ments of our associates. We have learned that the best way to judge is to suspend one's judgments, and that true democ- racy gives every man a free, full chance to prove himself. The friendships that we have formed here are the most precious facts of our college life. A man cannot live to him- self alone and the best in his life incorporates itself in his friendships. These friendships we carry away with us and through them the memory of these years shall never die. The thing that binds our various experiences together is thought. We have learned to think for ourselves. ln our study, in our fellowship, we have tried to choose out the ele- ments of truest value. What we have chosen has helped to form our points of view, our principles, our ideals, and these are the things that will count in our lives. Side by side with our individual development, with our associations and friendships, has come a closer connection with Princeton. We have reached the maturity of Princeton manhood. We have grown to a truer realization of the ideals of this place, ideals established during the century and a half of its life. We have learned to distinguish between ideals and established forms, forms which seek, ever imperfectly, to give expression to ideals. At times some custom, some standard, some institution may have cramped us, but we came to realize that our role was to be active as Well as passive, that we were to mould as well as to be moulded, and that Princeton was to be not only what she has been in the past, but what we in the present and generations yet to come were to help to make her to be. Strengthened thus by these four years, and proudly bearing the name of Princeton men, we, are now going forth to justify Princeton in the eyes of the world, to prove her worth to those who have not felt it in their own lives, to justify the capital, the labor, the lives that have been devoted to her. We go forth to fulfill her mission. For Princeton is not an end in herself. Princeton is here to serve the nation. Princeton is here to serve the world. The truest service that we can render 28

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Ivy Oratien. JAMES BRECKINRIDGE WALLER, JR. g, ELLOW CLASSMATES of 1910, and 7 Friends of Ours and of Princeton: V ' We are gathered here to perform a simple ceremony which shall commemo- x sy fy rate our graduation from Princeton Uni- S versity. As we plant this ivy, we think of our love for Princeton and of the 515552 5 ' spirit of friendship which binds our class together. The life of this plant shall sym- f' bolize to us our lives as Princeton men. jill?-IITQ-.L We, too, shall draw strength from Prince- ton. We, too, shall climb upwards, and, 7 T as we climb, we, too, shall do honor to -V Qld Nassau. It is fitting that on this occasion we should consider the significance of our graduation. Behind us lie four formative years of our lives. What have they meant to us? Before us lie our years of manhood. How are we prepared for them? What shall they mean to us? These four years have been years full of true development. Through application, whether grudging or eager, to our studies, we have acquired a trained mind by which we hope to adapt ourselves to whatever life may have in store for us. We have been enriched from the wor1d's store of knowledge. Great, new fields have unfolded themselves before our eyes. We carry away with us an interest in learning. More vital in their action upon us have been the associa- tions and friendships which we have formed here. We go away trained not only in mind, but in the relationship of man 27

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Ivy Omtiovz Princeton is to make her end our end, and to make the most of her as a means to this common end. We go forth, then, with all that Princeton has given us, to serve, as earnest citi- zens, each his own locality, through the locality to serve the nation, and through the nation to serve the world. But should the ideals with which we are now entering upon this larger life prove vain and illusory, should our efforts to realize them prove weak and faltering, still we shall always cling to those ideals which we have found true here in our college years, ideals of democracy and of friendship, of truth and of honor, we shall always cherish the scenes and associa4 tions of these years, weshall always give of our best to secure continued success and NLong Life to Old Nassau . 29