Roosevelt University - Vanguard Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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l AM HAPPY to have the opportunity to salute Roosevelt College of Chicago on the occasion of the publication of the first yearbook in its three year history. During the short period of its existence, Roosevelt College of Chicago has built a reputation for leadership not only in the scholastic field, but also in the much more important field of human relations. The policy of the school in maintaining no quota systems against any minority, race, or religion, has stamped it as an institution which is striving to carry out the highest ideals of a true democracy. The participation of students with the faculty in the college’s operation is worthy of high commendation. Your college bears the name of Roosevelt. Because Franklin Delano Roosevelt advocated and fought throughout his life for a truly free and democratic America, in which all citizens regardless of what race or creed they came from would have equal opportunity in this land of ours, the name of Roosevelt will always be identi- fied with the struggle for true democratic principles. It is hoped that Roosevelt College of Chicago will continue throughout the years to practice the liberal ideals which my father fought for and thus continue the Roosevelt tradition. Elliott Roosevelt

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TARIN! P. SINHA Born in India . . . educated at the Hindu University, Benares . . . the Uni- versity of London . . . Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva . . . Michigan . . . Chicago . . . personal friend of Gandhi, of Tagore, A. Fenner Brockway . . . officer. Opium Section, Secretariat, League of Na- tions . . . Manchester Guardian . . . British Independent Labour Party . . . teacher of economics and political science at Roosevelt College . . . died of a cerebral hemorrhage December 2, 1946, while teaching a class. These are official reasons for remembering him. These are titles to orient those of our friends who never met Mr. Sinha. But it is not to Tarini P. Sinha's memory that we make this dedication. His unique faculty for involving himself with each of our lives makes it impossible for us to sepa- rate the when he was alive from the when he was dead. We still expect him to encounter us accidentally in the corridor just at the moment when we reluctantly admit to ourselves that we cannot afford supper. He has some- thing to talk about, he says, and would we do him the honor. And he always knows which ones we are. Or watch him try to hide his sheepishness as he confesses that last night he con- soled a lady whose son was killed in Germany by telling her of the glories for which her son died. Hear him forcefully denounce injustice. When we introduced him as one of our favorite teachers he merely said, with that accent which knows many languages but remains devoted to the mother tongue, I wish you would have said, 'This is Mr. Sinha, one of my dearest friends'. — ETHEL KOTAL