University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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America, for a little while, and then return it, laden with life for the future, for man ' s upward climb into the bright, new day. We, therefore, dedicate this book to the same theme to which, by its very nature, the university has been dedicated. The thread that weaves these pages into a single tapestry is one of influences, influences beginning at the university and slowly widening, in ever-expanding circles until they encompass the nation, perhaps the earth. These are the immediate in- fluences one center of learning has upon the world. Multiply them a thousand fold, send them forth, and progress follows with enlightenment in its train, enlightenment for a world that sorely needs it. To these basic principles we have dedicated this book in the hope that men may someday take them up and carry them forward as they now carry the battle flags of embitsgred nations. . £

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DEDICATION We have dedicated this volume of the Terrapin to a theme of influences, those influences which the University of Maryland exerts upon its students, and through them, upon their communities, states, and finally, the nation. ioMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW. Mail builds his life around that single word. It is the fountain of youth, the lodestone of the eternal, the hope of generations yet unborn. When a madman de- stroys the world we know, those of us who are left sigh and patiently go to work rebuilding for our children and our children ' s children. To build for the future, we must know how to build, we must have the right tools with which to build, we must educate ourselves that we may leave a firm foundation for those who will follow. No building was ever erected, no great work of literature written in a year or a hundred years. Progress is the result of a thousand, ten thousand years of unremitting toil as man dragged himself out of the primeval ooze into the dawn of civili- zation. The University of Maryland is dedicated to progress. We have here a melting pot for the culture, the learning of this hemisphere and of the Europe that was. The nation has sent us her engineers, her businessmen, her poets, her scientists, and her administrators, and together they have welded a great university. She has sent us, too, her boys and girls. They have come from every state in the Union, from South America, and from across the seas. They have all been different, and yet they have all been alike in that they have carried as their key to the university ' s gates the desire, the willingness to learn. They have come to us as boys and girls and we have returned them, each to his own place, men and women, wiser perhaps, and at least prepared to take up their share of tomorrow ' s work, to shoulder their part of the burden of life. Wherever they go, a part of the university goes with them. Con- versely, each of them has left an indelible imprint of himself on the uni- versity, its life, and its customs. For good or evil, the University of Mary- land draws its life blood from the great cities, the farms, the villages, from every place and station in life. We keep that life blood, the youth of

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IN MEMORIAM Dr. Thomas Hardy Taliaferro AN OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR AND GALLANT GENTLEMAN, DR. THOMAS HARDY TALIAFERRO, DEAN EMERITUS OF THE UNIVERSITY, LEFT WITH US A RECORD OF HIGH IDEALS AND DEVOTED, UNSELFISH SERVICE. THOUGH HE IS WITH US NO LONGER, HE HAS LEFT AN INDELIBLE MARK UPON THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AND THE MEMORY OF HIS WARM SMILE AND WISE COUNSEL WILL LINGER WITH US AS LONG AS THE UNIVERSITY STANDS. Professor Charles Leroy Mackert A GREAT ATHLETE AND DEVOTEE OF GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP, PROFESSOR CHARLES LEROY MACKERT SET AS HIS GOAL THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BEST IN ATHLETICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. HIS CONTRIBUTIONS, BOTH AS COACH AND DIRECTOR OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION, STAND AS AN UNDYING TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMORY. HIS COURAGE, EVEN IN HIS LAST ILLNESS, AND HIS DEEP SINCERITY SHALL BE A CHERISHED MEMORY WITH ALL OF US WHO WERE HIS FIRENDS.