University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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1 1 7 Chancellor Samuel Avery The Chancellor HOR many years I have been asked to indite in the pages of the Cornhusker a few words of greet- ing. So again I improve with pleasure the opportunity to greet students, graduates, faculty, and all loyal Cornhuskers everywhere. I have learned that the keynote of this book is Looking Forward. Needless to say, this is the keynote of most of the Cornhuskers. Implicitly, it is the spirit even of those Cornhuskers which have a distinctly historical aspect. For in the life of a university it IS peculiarly true that we often see the promise of the future in the accomplishments of the past. And so in this moment of looking forward let us remember that we see visions of still greater achieve- ment largely through the eyes of those v hose labors have made possible our present confidence and optimism. If our University is to fulfill its destiny as one of the leaders of thought in this section of the country we must advance in all worthy lines of endeavor. Cultural subjects and vocational subjects m.ust progress harmoniously and sympathetically. The faculty must be strengthened whenever oppor- tunity permits. Problems educational, problems financial, and problems in the broad sense spiritual will confront us. Our progress will depend on our ability to meet these problems as they arise. Judg- ing from the phenomenal growth of the institution during the last tv enty years, we can look forward confidently to the future. It should be the ambition of everyone now entrusted with responsibility — and this includes everyone from the Regents to the students — so to build that when those of the future look over the Cornhusker of 1926 they will realize that the hopes and aspirations of that day were prophetic and not a passing enthusiasm of the hour. S mWAX WA A A A A

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. ? . Hakrv n. Landis Board of Regents XN the very nature of things your Regents may not come in close and personal contact with the students in so numerous a family, but we nevertheless wish them to know that we are more conscious day by day of the growth of our University in quality as well as quantity and we are happy in the accomplishment, year hy year, of a broader culture, physically, intellectually, morally and spiritually. The students are the interpreters to the world of Nebraska ' s standards. They are the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. It is their culture that is the index of our progress and we are proud to accept it as a worthy .iccomplishment. 15- MM M»N ' « W4V«V.vViW«vy i yi : «V I i TTT III ' » ' ' ' ' » J ' ' ' » ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ' ' '

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w Tmy. Dean Carl C. Encheru Dean of Men ECR over a third ot a century 1 have as a student or teacher in the University, vk ' atched its re- markable progress and growth materially, intellectually, morally. In the early days, the Uni- versity was extremely poor, hut under the leadership of a few great men, it was making the most of its meager resources, and was laying a firm foundation for substantial and unlimited future growth. Lack of equipment and shortage of teachers often made it almost impossible to secure gixxl work because of the impossibility of reaching the less capable or the unwilling. Conditions are still far from ideal, but they are surely improving with every passing year. Though the growth in the past has been great, it should be far greater in the near future, and we will before long have an equipment and a teaching staff adequate to all our needs. Beautiful buildings and elaborate equipment, however, do not make a great university, but they make gixxl work possible. Many teachers do not make up for quality of teaching, but they make it possible to give the personal instruction and inspiration to the individual which has in the past been too often denied him. Equipment and teachers, though, however great they may Ixr, are powerless unless they have the co-operation of an earnest, intelligent and energetic student body. Scholarship is now honored as never before. It is coming to be recognized as a requirement without which there is no entry to athletics, to fraternities, to student activities, in short, to all the avenues of activity that loom s i large and attrac tive before the eyes and imagination of the young men and women of today. The strong student who a few years ago was sneered at, is now coming into his own; the society drone, who once was considered so desirable, is now being rapidly eliminated; and there is being developed an atmosphere of such spiritual and moral power as to make the University the greatest single force f ir g(X)d in the State Fortunate indeed are they who are privileged to have a part in this epoch-making progress. ' y tM y, tfv y . v y y s 4vy y y