Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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DR. LAURA H. CARNKIJ. Page Nineteen

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To the Class of 1927: The Class of 1927, as the years go by, is going to feel that it was an especially privileged class, because of the part it took in the initial efforts for the Greater Temple University. Its officers led the whole student body in their plans for their gifts to the Conwell Recognition Fund. It had been your privilege to know the great Founder and when you were asked to give only a small amount as your individual share in the Memorial Fund you doubled it several times because you loved Dr. Conwell and because his memory is dear to you. The students’ effort came first and what you did was the inspiration that led all the others as the great movement went on. Freely you have given. May you receive as freely in the future the things in life that are really worth while. If you have found the joy of giving of yourself for others, you will not need to seek happiness, it will come to you of itself. May you go forth as leaders in all movements that shall help to make the sum total of human happiness greater and life better worth living, and may the peace that is past understanding crown your days. (Signed) Laura H. Carnell, Associate President. Page High teen

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To the Class of 1927, Greeting: The college student has the rare opportunity of cultivating the perceptions of beauty. Beauty is primarily an attitude of mind, it is not merely a sensible contact with things regarded as beautiful. It is in part unconscious, the expression of feelings provided by race and environment. But the native impulse requires careful development. Genius, to be sure, may flourish anywhere. A Dante or a Velasquez or a Chopin springs, it seems to us, straight from the soil. The average man, however, who would appreciate or create a beautiful object must be taught by preceptors who themselves understand the elements of worth. To learn the harmonies of an alien language, to trace the sources and relations of mathematical symbols, to peer beneath the crude units or mighty masses of nature’s substance and seize upon her primordial laws, to roam amidst the labyrinth of social cultures, seeking a true and satisfactory answer to their vexing queries, to find the secret of truth in the noble endeavors of philosophy, to immerse one’s spirit in the divine creations of human art, in literature, painting, and music—this is the task of a college student, and this is the pathway to beauty. Sincerely yours, (Signed) James H. Dunham, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Page Twenty