Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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ul know O f no safe depositor f P0Wer5 of . SOC1gt b not - Y ut 1 Y o t , th enllghtened en he PeOp1e l . if he ultimate C remed - Ough to exe . - we think th IS . rclse their Cont 1 Cm . ro - Y cation ' - - to Inform their discretion by d C u- --Th omas jefferson ln l9?m7 Queens College sprang in silhouette against Amer- ica's intellectual horizon, and took its share of the burden carried by institutions similarly dedicated to the belief that self-govern- ment requires a people thoroughly trained. The curriculum, no sooner described than respected, has proved itself the working outline for a rounded body of lcnowledge, and also a formula e of vigorous potentialities of both ordinary and for the releas gifted young men and women. But the democratic ideal has always been more easily com- mended than conceived. America repeated that ideal almost into a truism, so that it disintegrated into unmeaningnessfthat eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, that democracy's road is ever before it. The glitter of victory in the first great war smothered its democratic incentive, and self-satisfaction made ' ' from an accumulating storm, which us turn unwilling ears away