Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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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

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Philadelphia in History V7 ITHIN Philadelphia, the city that saw the independence of a nation created, the city which truly is the soul-capital of America, Temple University was founded. The growth of the University ever since its humble beginning in 1884 has been amazing, almost unbelievable. In many ways its expansion can be likened to the historic development of Philadelphia itself. Venerable as is its history, Philadelphia has not been content to rest on past greatness and achievement, but has constantly been moving forward in a spirit of progress, a spirit essential in the present age of modernism. Temple, too, though comparatively young, has its tradition, tradition to be recognized and preserved. Neverthless, Philadelphia, indeed the nation, has found in Temple one of its greatest instruments of progress. It shall be the duty of the graduates, Knights Templars of 1948, to accept the challenge of the progressive age. The Templars, while still preserving the ideals of the University and its founder, along with the ideals of a historic environment, must further a tradition of service. This service, this sense of duty, already established by both Philadelphia and Temple University, must be strengthened by them. CARPENTER HAU, |