Texas A and M University - Aggieland Yearbook (College Station, TX)

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE He who would be truly educated should constantly keep in mind that days spent in the class room or laboratory constitute only the elementary portion of the highest educational achieve¬ ment. It should be a constant process beginning in early life and continuing through to the end of life. Each individual should have, in addition to such training as he desires for purely utilitarian purposes, high intellectual aims. He should endeavor to make preparation for and use the full measure of his mentality in application to the attainment of high and worthy objectives. Yarle said of education: rr It is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime destroy, no enemy alienate, no despotism enslave. At home, a friend: abroad, an introduction; in solitude, a solace; and in society an ornament. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave. A reasoning savage. ’ It has been sought by the most thoughtful men throughout history. It has been used not alone for personal advancement, but for the benefit of the human family. To the degree that you have prepared yourself mentally, and to the extent that you dedicate your training and talents to the broader service of your fellow human beings, you will live successful lives. Narrowness in an educated man is the best evidence that he has failed to grasp the full meaning of education and that he is making the poorest possible application of the working tools he has acquired through education. It is the hope of your faculty and the administrative officers of your institution that the splen¬ did training you have secured while a student in this College has equipped you to live not only successful individual lives, but successful lives in the collective sense; and that you will give back to your State and your Nation constructive service as compensation to them for the investment