Texas A and M University - El Rancho Yearbook (Kingsville, TX)

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E. W. Seale President TO THE STUDENT BODY OF THE TEXAS COLLEGE OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES Much has been said since you have become college students of the amount of money spent by the State for higher education. The ratio of college expenditures to other governmental projects is so small that we can ill afford to be concerned about the amount of money spent on state supported colleges. We should be concerned, rather, with the fruits of the State’s expenditures for higher education. It becomes, then, a question of what does the State get in return for its expenditures. A measure of its returns is difficult to find. By what unit shall we measure the returns of our colleges? To discover and name definite units will have to be left for the future — we have no answer now. But what the results are to society will have to be not measured by you, but determined by you, the students of this College. If, as a result of the training which you receive in this institution, you shall become well informed, clear thinking, honest, patriotic citizens, if your capacities have been developed to a higher degree than they could have been developed without a college training, and if, as a result of your college training, you are able through the rest of your active lives to measure up to the highest responsibilities of citizenship, to act with courage, to think clearly, and to deal justly, and at the same time exercise a leadership that points in the direction of these virtues, then the State will have been vindicated in all that it has spent in the support of this institution. E. W. SEALE.

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EXECUTIVES

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Permit me to extend the good wishes and congratulations of the Board of Direc- tors to the Annual staff, to the student officers of the College, and to the entire student body upon seeing you round out another successful year at our own Texas College of Arts and Industries. The past year has brought changes, many trials, and hardships and sorrows. The student body, however, has borne itself well under the serious conditions which the College has faced. The conduct of the spendid young men and women of The Texas College of Arts and Industries is a source of genuine inspiration to the entire Board of Directors. We are convinced that you are a group of serious-minded, capable and promising young Texans. It is a source of pride and pleasure that we, your Board of Directors, have had a part in the management of an institution whose business it is to train for leadership a group that seems to promise so much for the future of the Lone Star State. With all the young and abundant life which we find on this campus there is so little of the “horse play,” the trivialities, and lack of discipline which has at times marked so many college campuses. Of these things we have taken due note and have marked with joy and pride. You are students of a young college, and although many fine traditions have been estabished, you, the present student body, are still the makers of the traditions of The Texas College of Arts and Industries. Let me charge you as one wTho loves the institution with all the devotion with which you love it that you build traditions at this college that will be worthy of the fine name of Texas, and the heritage left to you by those who have loved, served, and sacri- ficed in the days which now make up the history of our state. R. L. BOBBITT. TO THE STUDENT BODY OF THE TEXAS COLLEGE OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES