Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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DEAN MILTON F. STAUFFER SCHOOL OF COMMERCE FACULTY T wcnty'eight

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To the Class of 1928: Dear fellow-members of the teaching guild, Greeting! You have helped to make the year of grace 1927-28 a notable one in the history of Temple and Teachers College. It has been a time of progress in academic as well as athletic interests. You have made a most worthy contribution to the ever-widening expansion of our influence and our scr-vice. Temple University is preeminently co-operative in spirit and action. You are not only our students. You will soon be also our ambassadors. As graduates you will go forth into your several fields of activity, and represent your Alma Mater. On your continued loyal and enthusiastic support depend largely the future growth and prosperity of Temple University. The best advertisement is a satisfied patron. Here you have had discipline in thinking: here you have learned the importance of mastery; here you have acquired an appreciation of values. Your enthusiasm for your Alma Mater will be infectious; and your friends will follow your example and come in their turn to the “Heart of Philadelphia.” You carry with you our sincere regard and our very best wishes for the largest possible measure of personal happiness and professional success. Ever cordially yours, T we nty-se ven

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To the Class of 1928: The members of the Class of 1928 are thinkers. You are going out from your Alma Mater at a time when material things are placed first. The wealth of the United States, the remarkable inventions, electricity-the white slave, the constant and persistent craving for amusement, radios screeching from every shop corner, seem to be emphasized. Thinkers select that which is most important. The four hundred and fifty million inhabitants of the earth live in one great neighborhood. There are other countless millions who have lived their lives. Astronomers have taught us that there are innumerable universes. But there is a definite plan for your life. Think of your own individual value. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick reminds us of Tennyson's words: “For tho' the Giant Ages heave the hill And break the shore, and evermore Make and break, and work their will, Tho' world on world in myriad myriads roll Round us, each with different powers, And other forms of life than ours. What know we greater than the soul?” The great Master Mind has a plan for your life as well as a plan for the universe. As thinkers, place first things first. In the beginning God. Twenty-nine