Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Theme THE 1948 TEMPLAR TAKES AS ITS THEME THE GROUP FROM WHOM IT TAKES ITS NAME THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS. THIS ORDER WAS ESTABLISHED AT JERU- SALEM IN THE 12TH CENTURY FOR THE PRO- TECTION OF PILGRIMS AND THE HOLY SEPULCHRE. THIS NAME HAS ALWAYS SIG- NIFIED HIGH IDEALS AND SERVICE. KNIGHTS OF TEMPLE HAVE BORNE THIS PROUD HERITAGE AND HAVE UPHELD ITS IDEALS, AS KNIGHTS TEMPLARS WILL EVER CONTINUE TO DO IN SERVING THEIR CITY, THEIR NATION, THEIR WORLD.

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From the President In these dangerous days, the deeds of the Knights Templars make a fitting theme for the University yearbook. The time is ripe for a new crusade to save from the infidel not the Holy Land but the whole world. Today ' s infidel is not Turk nor Saracen. It is an ideology that is all the more fearful because it cannot be struck down by lance or sword. It comes to men in many guises in their moments of despair. Like a creeping paralysis, it inactivates, then enslaves. Its infidelity is the denial of the forces of good as we know them. It would destroy the religion which upholds the dignity of the individual. It would stifle the spirit of enterprise which enables the individual to achieve better living by his own efforts. It would deny to that individual the right of dissent in public affairs. In return, it offers nothing but the bitter bread and tasteless water of security on a subsistence level a security more suitable to animals in a zoo than to men in a free society. This is the foe to which I beg our graduating seniors, Knights Templars of 1948, to address themselves. If they believe that a good idea is a more potent weapon than a bad idea, they will have no doubt of the outcome. Ultimate world power is not the vast machinery of a collectivist state. It is the genius of an unfettered man. ROBERT L. JOHNSON