Rollins College - Tomokan Yearbook (Winter Park, FL)

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h e PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE T -L HIS is the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Rollins College and the tenth year of my administration. What are the chief things I have learned in these ten years? I put them down at random. First, that nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work is the only way to achieve results. Half-way work achieves not half results, but no results. Second, that age has as much to learn from youth, as youth from age. Age Ins wisdom, youth idealism. Youth believes in the future. Each one of you in the graduating class no doubt thinks that you will succeed in your chosen work; that you will be happily married; that you will be healthy, wealthy and wise. The fact that you believe these things will make them come true. As we go through life we older ones lose some of these ideals. We need ever to renew them. Youth, however, needs wisdom and that, alas, must come with experience. You cannot be blamed for not having wisdom but we who are older can be blamed for not having idealism. Third, that one must not expect things to come too quickly. When I began my work here I thought that Rollins would be much farther advanced than it is at the end of ten years. But I have found that the people you expect to help you often fail you, and that you often get help from the most unexpected quarters. The College President ' s most needed virtue is patience. Fourth, that the three greatest goal words in our language are Truth, Beauty and Goodness, but the words that tell us how to get there are Faith and Love. One must have faith in what one is doing and love the task at hand. You and I may well rejoice that we have an abiding faith in Rollins and a love for her in our hearts. Hamilton Holt. - 19-