Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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JUMBO BOOK 1353 JOHN ALBERT COUSENS A.B., LL.D. John Albert Cousens, our Presi¬ dent and our Exemplar. A man of keen business sense and of deep and genuine sympathy and kindness. Practical and at the same time friendly. Laboring ceaselessly for us as he works lor the good name of our Alma Mater. Our benefactor and the deserving recipient of our esteem and affection. The President s -TMhessage To the Editor of the 1933 Jumbo Book: It is good news that even in the midst of a major economic disturbance the Jumbo Book is to be published as usual. I he college annual by its pictures and by its text serves as an important chronicle of passing events which become of increasing historical interest. A year without its Jumbo Book would be a misfortune. 1 ou have been good enough to arrange that in your publication space may be found for this letter. I would use the privilege to impress upon the readers of the Jumbo Book the importance of the personnel of the student body as a factor in the total educative effects of college experience. The influence, both positive and negative, of each student upon his fellows and in turn of the whole group upon each indi¬ vidual is of very real consequence. The intangibles and imponderables which from their very nature can¬ not be measured with precision but which to a large extent determine the difference between success and failure of a college depend primarily upon the character of the student body. It follows, therefore, that it is the duty of every man and woman—graduate and undergraduate—ofTufts College to be unremitting in an effort to make sure that every promising boy and girl of his acquaintance is informed of the ad¬ vantages which 1 ufts College has to offer and is aware of the value of a college education. The con¬ sciousness of this obligation should be present at all times, and there should be an especial urge to dis¬ charge it in these days when, because of widespread economic failure and acute social distress, educational values tend to be obscured. Very truly yours, John A. Cousens, President Sixteen