University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE Not until 1944 will the University of Minnesota be entitled to celebrate its own Diamond Jubilee; nevertheless it joins heartily in the spirit of affectionate appreciation in which all Minnesotans are commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of this commonwealth ' s admission to statehood. Minnesota is a splendid state. It enjoys the perennial attraction of variety. In its southern parts it is of the corn belt, yet its north is piney forest. To the west it blends into the prairies, yet on the east it has access to the Atlantic Ocean through the Great Lakes, and to the Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi River. Its minerals, manufactures and forests combine with the products of the field and the dairy to provide an unusually diversified source of livelihood for its people. To be ranked with these resources in importance and value to the State of Minnesota is its splendid educational system. It has been said that Minnesota has no other single advertisement the equal of its University. Men and women from all parts of the world come here to study, and pay their own expenses. Surely if the future of the state is to be a developing one, if we are to comprehend life, so as to be hap- pier, if we are to make the most fruitful uses of our raw materials, and if we are to develop a high type of social organization, we must under all circumstances support our scholars and our thinkers. We must continue to bring our young people into contact with them, and with the science, art and philosophy of the world. May there be an even fuller awakening to the importance of this policy when our University becomes seventy-five years old than there is now on the seventy-fifth birthday of our state. L. D. CoFFMAN, President {18}

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