Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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homes on December 7. brolce in Europe, and swirled into our And then we saw what our parents saw, but too quickly forgot: that a democratic America, a more capable, better-informed people cannot exist without a happier world, and that the first cruel process toward this end was the crucible of war. Queens College, inscribed to the democratic ideal in what it thought ' d to manifest in ways few foresaw the KCC, IS IIOYV PTCPQYC strength of its conviction. We must win, for we believe in that which no tyranny can suffer: the right of man to assert his humanity, his hope for self- fulfillment. We must win completely, because that right can ' ' and America and the world are now a not be realized in part, ' d half slave and half free. hous V035 PC e which cannot stan tion we dedicate this book. To this Concep 'In this br . d Amid the Irie earth of Ours EnClOSed and safe Withi . 6 S ag, Nestle s the See H us d of Central h PC1'feCtiOn , Cart, asufeless , gfossness and th 1 -Wan Whitman

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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

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