Sul Ross State University - Brand Yearbook (Alpine, TX)

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H. W. MORELOCK.President of the College L. I., Peabody Normal College; B. A., University of Ten¬ nessee; M. A., Harvard University; LL.D., Trinity University.

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PATRIOTISM Love of country is a commendable virtue as long as it is founded upon ideals in keeping with the golden rule. But there is a higher patriotism than that engendered in the hearts of a people by the exercise of might over right, and there is a nobler heroism than that which marches under flaunting banners and flashes a glittering saber merely for show. This finer type devotes its efforts to the cultivation of those virtues which prompt heroism only when national honor and national safety are endangered. It is to develop this type of patriotism that we pay tribute in this Centennial Year to those wise statesmen who through toil, sacrifice, and prophetic vision made possible our splendid system of public schools and our magnificent Institu lions of Higher Learning as service and culture mediums in a great democracy. The deeds of Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, Mirabeau Lamar, James Bowie, David Crockett, and that long list of heroic dead should challenge a patriotism which will never violate those social virtues, that political freedom, that intellectual outlook, and that spiritual culture which their lives bequeathed to us as a heritage. And as we stand tonight in the lengthening shadows of the Alamo and face the dawn of the Centennial, let us pledge anew faith in our fathers, and reconsecrate our vows on the altar of a still greater Texas. Sincerely, 7Y- Us- 7 H. W. MORELOCK

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NORMAN SPENCER.Head of Department of Economics and Government, and Dean of the College. M. A., George Peabody College for Teachers; Ph. D., Uni¬ versity of Texas. Page 18