Salem State University - Clipper Yearbook

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Qlibe iBre5ihrnt's Message Advice is like good wine: time strengthens and mellows both. Nearly four centuries before the birth of Christ. the Greek philosopher, Diogenes Lmrtius. wrote. 'AThales was asked what was very difficult: he said. 'To know one's selff Eighteen hundred years later, Geoffrey Chaucer penned the same thought in the Monke's Tale. Full wise is he that can himselven knowef' Alexander Pope chanted an antiphon in the couplet. Know then thyself. presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man. No sounder counsel is to be found in literature: no more profitable admonition can be given today. Know thyself. I-Iow many of us really know ourselves, appreciate our possibilities, recognize our deficiences? I-Iow many of the few who have taken conscientious self-inventory render a proper accounting of their worth? The scientists tell us that nothing is ever destroyed. but no scientist has had the temerity to assert that nothing is ever wasted. The world is full of waste: and waste means loss. The most lamentable loss to the social order is the dissipation of human re- sources due primarily to a lack of understanding of the potentialities contained within them. There are several manifest implications in the lines: It matters not how straight the gate. I-low charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. If Henley meant that he had so completely evaluated himself as to be able to direct his faculties toward the most serviceable ends. the stanza is a powerful arraignment of those who, through lack of self-appraisement, are squandering their substance riotously. Interpreted in this way, it is a slogan which every student should remember through college and every graduate should carry through life. lf we know ourselves completely, we shall govern ourselves wisely. We shall not be creatures of impulse or Hvictims of circumstance. We shall be aware of our limitations and proud of our capabilities. neither exceeding the one nor abusing the other. XVe shall not tremble at the imminence of defeat: we shall not exult boisterously in the presence of victory. We shall drive our proven talents to the uttermost in order to do best the things we are best quali- ned to do. Thus, by sane conduct we shall achieve much. and the world will be a better place by reason of our having lived in it. Naturally it is a pleasure to congratulate the members of the senior class on the accomplishments of the past four years. and particularly on the produc- tion of this excellent book which is a compendium of their activity. May it be also a symbol of their future. As these pages reflect or suggest outstanding individual abilities. so may they be prophetic of the extent to which these abilities will be exercised in the days to come. May our seniors pursue gjudiciously their development through life. But let them remember that only by prudent self-analysis can proper methods of development be disclosed, To each of them l commend again the words of Chaucer: l5ull wise is he that can hiinselven knowef' Zfdmffi fvifww