Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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THE RUFUS C. HARRIS

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PRESIDEIIT ' S mESSflGE The year 1947-48 at Tulane has found us concerned with unsolved problenns, conflicting opinions, and uncontrolled forces in the political and moral spheres of the world. Military superiority did not bring vic- tory. If the purpose of the war was idealogical, we have not won it. We have only changed our weapons from force to persuasion. Who knows how to use this new weapon? The purpose of higher education is training in the art of thinking. Mastery of that art will develop the mind for intentional and intelligent use, not for unwitting and unwilling manipulation. Freedom from preju- dice, freedom from ignorance, freedom from complacence depends upon minds disciplined enough to be con- trollable and therefore really free. For the men and women of Tulane and Newcomb, and for the wife of the student veteran, that freedom is a precious thing. They have fought for it in war, they have striven for it in peace, that they may insure for themselves and their descendants a future worthy of their illustrious past. As this yearbook brings back memories of these extraordinary campus days, I hope il will renew and nourish your determination to live intelligently and courageously, in the fear of God and in the light of truth. RUFUS CARROLLTON HARRIS Pte inleHt