Suffolk University - Beacon Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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j-xom tfiz To the Class of 1950: Suffolk is proud of the records you have made. Suffolk is confident that your future records in whatever fields you enter will add to the prestige of her name. To a large extent the future of tfie University rests on you—eacli of you! Your future conduct and fame will add dignity to not only your degree but that of every future Suffolk graduate. During your undergraduate days your enthusiasm for and application to every task, intellectual or extra-curricular alike, have demonstrated your sincerity, fidelity and determination. Those attribites carried out in your future life can not fail to mark each of you as a competent citizen. The only contribution Suffolk University can make to America is by training graduates who will lead lives of usefulness and reputation. In bestowing a degree on you ice certify that we, at Suffolk, are willing to have the world judge us by you. You, during your days here, have contributed much to the Unii ersity in every phase of its existence. Of that we are certain! We humbly trust that, in turn, Suffolk has made to each of you ivorthiohile contributions in learning, character and all that goes to make an ideal American citizen and leader. As you leave, your Alma Mater bestows on you a sincere wish for a future of success, happiness and contentment. UT1£ President

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j-xOm the, U £.an To the Class of J 950: As graduating seniors, you are to be heartily congratulated for the success you Iiai e thus far achieved and for tlie proficiency you have attained in your formal education. You are now ready to commence your informal education — to study the problems of life, ivhich are not assigned from textbooks. The years you hax e spent here at Suffolk—that have just slipped by so quickly— are in sad fact gone, but you can just as surely and as clearly remember the many happy experiences for the remainder of your lii es. Make sure you re- tail} the memory of them and re-live your university days at alumni gatherings or whenever you gather tuith Suffolk friends. Remember, too, your university experiences, for they will take on sur- prisingly new meanings as tlie years pile up. You will be able to draw new in- terpretations of these experiences for strengtli and for encouragement. You will also enjoy the pleasures of recollection for their own sake. As happy as your undergraduate days ivere, far happier experiences lie ahead. Otlierwise yoa xvould be working without tlie spirit that is derived from hope and anticipation. Our association has been of too short a time for me to look back with you over the last four years. But I do not consider tliis important , since four years back is a relatively short internal of time. It is at best a shadoiu. Consequently , we together, are forced to look ahead and that is good, for ahead is the light by which you will find your worth as creative thinkers and reasoning persons. Recall the attitudes developed in your days at Suffolk, but do not try to remember the detail of what was said or done in the formal classroom sessions. The classroom, text book and instructor are but symbols of a restricted and guided life of preparation and of promise. The fulfillment comes when you commence to think big, talk to the point and perform well in the ivorld of affairs and of people. Caste yourselves into worthy roles with respect to your pursuits, whether in work or in pleasure. But temper this role with a good degree of culture, sociability and humility. The world will ahvays need actors who have the finest personal characteristics, initiative and creatix e imagination. I shall more than merely congratulate you and ivish you well in your future endeavors. I will always rejoice with you in your success, happiness and abundant life.