University of Central Missouri - Rhetor Yearbook (Warrensburg, MO)

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To Tea flzerf: In Peter Pan the pirate captain says as he fights: 'lWho are you, Pan? And Pan replies: I am youth, eternal youth. I'm the sun rising, I'm poets singing, I'm the new world. I'm joy, joy, joy! To recall school days is to recall eternal and joyful youth. In an awakened countenance, or in the dawning light of mischievous eyes, have you not seen the sun rising? In the confidences of new- born hopes have you not heard poets singing? Was not the school a new world abounding in joy? Indeed, the schoolroom is no place for cynicism. Leave every sign of pessimism outside the door. Take with you a saving sense of humor and a capacity for joy-joy even in the vagaries of childhood. Do this and you, too, will remain young, for joyous teachers never grow old. Their heritage is that of their pupils, eternal youth. My first admonition is that you approach your task with joy. A second hope is that you will have confidence in your mission and in yourselves. Your mission is unmistakable. Its very concep- tion is an inspiration. But you also are a select group of workers. You are commissioned to teach men how to think-a process little indulged in by some of us. Moreover, it is a new world in which you will live?-new in its hopes and aspirations, new in its ideals of social and economic justice. It is your high privilege to make straight the way for this new and chastened life. Have confidence in your mission and in yourselves. At the first battle of the Marne Marshal Foch reported to his superior officer as follows: My right retreats, my left is beaten back. I shall attack at once with my center. So said Nelson at Trafalgar and Washington at Valley Forge, so said Walter Scott and Mark Twain in the face of enormous debts. Such confidence has possessed great souls throughout history. Such confidence must the teacher have, for she is preparing citizens for a democracy whose very existence depends on intelligence and morality. If the right wing of civilization seems to retreat, and the left wing appears beaten back, it is going to be your task to lead at once with the center of youth, eternal youth-now twenty-five millions strong-in the direc- tion of truth and justice, liberty and love. ' E. L. HENDRICKS, President Page 18 P04

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