University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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All of us have been given the privilege of an education, but few of us realize its advantage. In the years after the war, we must strive to develop our educational institutions and continue their progress, so that our children and grandchildren will better realize the principles at stake today. lt is in our colleges that minds are developed and perfected, and with a host of liberal-minded students who have set freedom as their common goal, we shall be given a better realization of the world order of which we are so vitally a part. We in college today are being taught the principles that must be adopted to preserve peace. We are learning the costs of war with re- gard to both men and money, and we are now called upon to advance this learning. 'Tis education forms the common mind, just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. We are now fighting against tyranny of exclusive ideas, for freedom in the post war world needs free and liberal minds, and minds can not be free so long as they are constricted by narrow thoughts. Our country was found- ed with liberty as the basic element, and we must keep this always in mind. So to the world of tomorrow, a world free from doctrines denying our heritage, free from restrictions on learning and progress, free from oppres- sion and tyranny, to a world in which people may live at peace and strive for a better life through education, we dedicate this book. fix l fxxy X Q ESSEZPA f 7, , fff -... A tuggf' 'ri-:3'4',9' XS if W K -it t t j ,qqf L .flat f

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O THE PGST-WAR WORLD . X We who are undergraduates in college today I are facing a grave challenge, a challenge not only for the present but for the future. lt is our oppor- tunity and our responsibility to carry on the prin- ciples of the four freedoms, those principles which have arisen out of the World chaos, those principles upon which the future of our civilization must rest. To every one of us the four basic freedoms have become more than symbols. We have all seen the importance, the absolute necessity, for their adoption, not only for ourselves but for all nations and for all peoples. To achieve the four freedoms We must depend upon international action and co-operation, for in this competitive society of which We form an integral part, We need the assistance of other nations as much as they need ours. In this, as in the last war, We are fighting for democracy, and we know that this time we must make the peace a lasting one. We are today thinking internationally, and We must continue to do so. We must not, when the War is over, turn our backs on the rest of the World. The opportunity of the university undergraduate lies in the fact that the American university is an institution of the people, one not limited to a select few but offering the possibility of education to all types of people from all Walks of life. The fact that its research and its teaching belong to the people is one of our great sources of democratic strength. We have all seen the disastrous effect on the German people of the distortion of the German insti- tutions of learning, and we should realize from this the importance of demo- cratic education.

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QREWQRD In spite of difficulties resulting from the War, both in the publication of this annual and because of the restricted activities of the students, we were determined that a RAZORBACK should be published this year. We believe that there is much good in the continuity of this traditional yearbook, for it binds together mem- ories that will never be forgotten . . Many of our professors have been called into the service, and, along with thousands of our boys, are fighting all over the World. But with these men as their symbol, more and more students are attending college now, and ak ' many veterans have already returned to resume 1--LM Vhql ywmy A their studies. With a 1070 increase in enrollment, 5 . . f ' 58' growth of the University has continued . . . 1 ACTIVITIES - With students showing a more active i lg it I f I it interest in school life, and with a constant desire for something different, that intangible faction of college life, school spirit, ADMINISTRATION AND CLASSES-