SUNY Plattsburgh - Cardinal Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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Co tfje Clatf of 1930 All things have been changing from the beginning. Nothing is as it was, not even yesterday. Everything to be will be different from what is today. There is nothing fixed. Environment changes, and man changes with his environment. To understand this phenomena is necessary in order to guide this world to that which is better. To do this- is progress. This guidance is our responsibility. One of the intellectual leaders before the time of Christ let it be known: The gods have not shown men all things from the beginning, but, seeking, in time they will find out what is better. This is as true today as it was then. We have been seeking together during this short space of time, and you now must go on seeking with others in new places what is better. This curious searching to find out what is better stretches on into infinity; anything else is finite. There- fore it is pa ramount that we continue to study, to experiment, to understand, to Jive abreast of these ever-changing conditions. To stop is to revert to the level of the high school student, from the high school student to the level of the grammar student. Individual striving to understand is at the basis of individual progress and individual success. The sum total of these experiences make for the salvation of the world. Success, let us say, is something that we are or become, not something that we take or get. It is far better to be than to seem, even if the pretender dies loaded with honor, and the truly great man, after suffering every kind of ill usage, is crucified. To be successful is to make a right use of our lives; to ask what we get from them is irrelevant. Success comes from within, a quality in all of us. The youth of today, of tomorrow, are as desirous of success as we are. Successful men and women are made, not born. The guidance of them in the making — in their blossoming days — is our trust, your trust. We live on in the lives of the successful men and women of tomorrow ; in them are our most enduring reward and happiness. To seek after that which is better is difficult; to guide others to that same end is more hazardous. Let us not be discouraged in our faith. Let us live to say we have taken our best pains riot to laugh at the actions of mankind, not to groan over them, not to be angry with them, but to understand them. This is the challenge I leave with you. Aufwiedersehen, (9 1

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the CJOtBIHAC MMj Carbtnal Matt Editor-in-Chief Astrid Edwardson Assistant Geraldine Cordick Business Manager Alfred Millet Assistant Curtis Saunders Advertising Manager Ferdinand Damanda Assistant Donald Downs Literary Editor Doris Gregory Assistants Ruth Decker Bernard Vandewater Nina Austen Joke Editor Geraldine Sennett Assistants Winifred Purdy Mildred Wilcox Alumni Editor Louise Dalton Music Editor Elizabeth Bradley Art Editor Tracey Brennan Assistant Edna Roosa Junior Representative, Eric Hansen Ereshmun Representative Helen Hunter Faculty Advitort : Einancial Mr. W. G. Thompson Literary Mr. Otis Noyes slrt i Mr. Charles Brown I 11 1