Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODOOOOC»OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoOaOOOOOOOODOaot » UJMH)N ft To the Cl ass of 1934 Yon are starting out on a real adventure. The game is not Pussy Wants i Corner, but Treasure Hunt. And you must be ready in body, mind and spirit for whatever you find; it may be the making of a new world, in which you can have a hand. Think what kind of a life you want to live, and make each day a cross section of it. Put in all the essentials—work .play, music, worship, friend- ship. to enrich every day; employ memory, imagination, wonder, appreciation, to get the most out of every day. If you cannot find a job with a salary, do the things that people with steady work cannot find leasurc for doing; and if your family must support you, give them their money s worth. Continue to study, and learn to teach. Teach a foreigner to read English, and learn his language. Read the history, biography, poetry, which your college work kept you from reading. Travel the world over through the writings of explorers. Now is the time to start a reading course. Be a self- starter, and start others, too. What about continuing the manual training you had in high school? AVOID SELF-PITY, the most enervating emotion known to the human soul.' Seek the happiness of those about you. The best things in life may be yours without money and without price. Faith, hope and love still abide. Make people glad to be in the room with you. Sincerely yours. ooooooooooooooooooooooooaoooooooaoooooooooooaooaoooooooaoooooooooooooooo 17

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President Silas Evans

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OOPO0O OOOOOOOOOD ODOaoOO0aOOOOO0OaO X aOOOaOO OOOO DO6oOOO0OOOO6OO6OOOO£ • t I IUH S Messages From The Deans Ripon College has had over three-quarters of a “Century of Progress.’ In that period of time it has not faltered from its faith in the cultivated mind and heart. It believes today, as it did nearly a hundred years ago. in the leadership of the personality enriched by the great tradition; in the worth to society of an intelligence both keenly critical and wisely tolerant; in the yood life, at its best known only to those who have passed through the open sesame of under- standing. Ripon serves this ideal better today than it did yester day. It expects to realize it ever more fully as each tomor- row passes through the living present into the realm of mem- ory. Graduating classes do not leave Ripon. They can not do that, for Ripon is not merely a collection of buildings, a place, or a name; it is a company of people bound together through all the years by a community of high purpose. It Graham is a family of friends forever. Class of 1934. you are ours, we are yours—as long as that spirit which we call Ripon College shall last. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 1934 That you have been in college pursuing an interesting routine of study and cictivity these four years when the world outside has been restless, con- tused. and often enforcedly idle; That you have achieved your college education which many who started with you equally ambitious have had to relinquish; That you have developed character at Ripon College, have made life-long friendships, and have attained to that poise which comes through intellectual understanding: That you are going out with the vigor of youth to participate in national affairs when great problems chal- lenge the country, when old conventions are cast aside, and when new ventures are being undertaken; That you are to add your influence to the new ideal of culture instead of to the sordid greed of Mammon as the American ideal of living; That you are to enter upon a life pregnant with the promise of altruism, an altruism which is already knitting together the nations of the world, and which will eventually elevate all classes and bring about the Brotherhood of Man. OO0OCK 18