Rollins College - Tomokan Yearbook (Winter Park, FL)

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FREEDOM PRESIDENT HAMILTON HOLT Just before President Roosevelt honored Rollins with his presence, two students brought into my office for a social call a distinguished representative of a distinguished inter- collegiate association. This gentleman had some very pleas- ant things to say of Rollins as a result of his short stay on our campus, but he spent not a little of his time in denouncing the President of the United States. He even went so far as to state that Rollins College should not have permitted the chief magistrate a hearing on the campus. I could not help wondering while our friend was talking what would have happened to him if in the presence of three witnesses he had similarly attacked Stalin in Russia, Hitler in Germany, or Mussolini in Italy. Would he not have been instantly imprisoned, if not shot at sunrise? I congratulated the gentleman that he lived in a country where he could freely express his opinion of men in high office without fear of dire consequences, but I felt that he should be the last one to wish to abridge in others the right which he himself enjoyed. I don t know whether there is a lesson in all this for the Senior Class of 1936, but there has been one in it for me.

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TO THE CLASS OF 1936 WINSLOW S. ANDERSON You are now completing four years at Rollins. I hope they have been happy and worthwhile. You have made friends not alone with students but with those of the faculty and administration whose pleasure it has been to guide you. Let me urge you to continue these friendships, for you will find them a continual sovirce of strength and satisfaction. For four years you have been privileged to share in the progress of Rollins College. How- ever, because you are being graduated does not mean you are to lose that privilege. In fact, new opportunities will be yours to add to the prestige and honor of your Alma Mater. A college achieves its real reputation through the success of its graduates. With your degree you have reached a milestone to which you looked forward when you en- tered Rollins, but I hope you will not consider it the end of your journey or the completion of your education. On the contrary, it is but the beginning, and you are now assuming an obliga- tion to press on, ever learning, ever growing. You came to Rollins in order to prepare yourself for useful service. Most of you were here through the sacrifice of parents or relatives. You can justify this sacrifice in no better way th an ever striving to serve. You are being graduated at a time when the world faces a most critical period, when calm intelligence is needed. A great opportunity lies before you. May you rise to the full achievement of it. Congratulations and good luck!