Texas State College for Women - Daedalian Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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 Jlppreci ation and Obligation The students of the College of Industrial Arts, for the session of 1921-22, have worthily expressed themselves in meeting the opportunities of the year in the truly significant and characteristic “C. I. A. Spirit.” Stated briefly, the student body this year has taken unusually high rank in the following ways: 1. The fine relationships among the students themselves, and between the students and the members of the faculty, could not possibly have been better and more wholesome. 2. The will to do and to achieve, in scholarship, in co-operative student government, and in college idealism, has been better expressed in right thinking and high living than ever before in the history of the College. 3. The students as a whole appreciate and recognize the fact that the College of Industrial Arts, in faculty, in courses of study, in classroom and laboratory equipment, in the personnel of the student body, and in administra- tive methods, is one of the great colleges of the country. Hence, the spirit de corps expressed in the “C. I. A. Spirit” is truly collegiate in interest, enthu- siasm, and content, and is somewhat different from the spirit among students of any other college or university of this country. 4. Every student of the College of Industrial Arts acknowledges her gratitude and obligation to Texas, and on returning home with her college credential, expresses that gratitude and obligation by rendering home and community service to the Commonwealth. Leadership in church and Sunday School work, in social betterment, in civic improvement, and in other matters of deep concern to home and community welfare, makes an especial appeal to girls who receive their education in the College of Industrial Arts; and in response to that appeal, there is hardly a community in Texas, or a home in the State, that does not feel, either directly or indirectly the wholesome ideals and leader- ship of the graduates of the College of Industrial Arts. The whole atmosphere of the College is saturated with the desire and ambition to render service to the homes and the communities of the State and the Nation. It is doubted whether there is such a vibrant spirit on questions of home and community welfare in any other college of this country. 5. In view of the foregoing, the College of Industrial Arts, as the leading educational institution of strictly college grade for women in the Southwest, will continue to appeal to the very best young womanhood of the land, and to give an education and a training to that young womanhood which makes for the efficiency, the solidarity, and the security of the American home, and for the progress and improvement of community life in the State and the Nation. It is a blessed privilege to be a student in this great College, of which the Board of Regents and the faculty co-operate with the students in making the service of the College function in most worth-while ways. It is an inspiration, as well as a benediction and an opportunity, to be the President of such an educational institution.