University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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' ■ DOCTOR WALTER E. CLARK, President of the University I

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ADMINISTRATION Out of the hidden den the hi-ic, and voe shoulder to shoulder urnder it, ■putting our strength upon the chosen road go farther in our day from dazcn to dusk.

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F OEBT AMD DUTT OR EACH HUMAN, heredity is fixed and iiaturaJ envirc nment is commcjnly given rather than chosen. Training, then, is the onJy one of the great triology of soul-grcjwth factors whose results are conditioned upon conscious effort by the individual human. In typical American lives, it is largely through the formal means, the schools, that training gets its determining effects. Schooling years and schooling contacts and disciplines, within and withouX the classroom, mold heredity potentials into actual Americans. Most particu- larly is this molding influence in evidence during college years. Then do strengths and weak- nesses become evident to selves and others. Then are bents discovered, habits of growth fixed and goals set. Then are wastrels winnowed, followers determined and leaders discovered and developed. Then are spirits lured into permanent habitation in the vital upper realms of mental and of spiritual power and progress. Faith in this high service of the college has been America ' s from the Jamestown and the Plymouth days until this hour. Colleges were begun by the landing generation; deep-souled Franklin laid college foundations in his City of Brotherly Lovej Jefferson accounted as his greatest service that to Virginia ' s College; Washington bequeathed part of his fortune to the founding of a college in the nation ' s capital. As the generations passed, American faith in the college as a means of soul growth grew. After two and a half centuries it had so grown that, even during the desperate later days of the Civil War, a stalwart Vermonter could lead the nation ' s lawmakers to adopt a policy guaranteeing substantial annual Federal aid to colleges to be developed in all of the states. The administration building on our own Campus was fittingly named in honor of this seer of the sixties. Senator Justin S. Morrill. Today, in these colleges for all the people, made possible and continuously maintained by the cooperation of the nation and the states, tens of thousands of American youths are finding themselves and are preparing to play their part in America ' s great tomorrow. No one thing in all America is more indicative of America ' s working creed or more prophetic of America ' s conquering future than this golden chain of nearly half a hundred of colleges and universities, jointly supported by Federal and by State funds. Our own University is a link in this American collegiate chain. It is well, then, that every present student should appreciate fully that his collegiate career, his best opportunity to discover and to develop his own hereditary gifts, is made possible through cooperation, unfailing through more than half a century, of these United States of America and this State of Nevada. A full sensing of the abiding American faith in the worthf ulness of the publicly sup- ported college as a training camp for democracy ' s leaders, will bring to every student a new understanding of the dignity of his collegiate days. A full sensing of the continuing aid of all America, and of the continuing courage, generosity, and self-sacrifice of all of Nevada ' s citizens, needful, throughout the nearly sixty years, to make possible, to maintain, and to develop this Nevada training camp, of whose benefits he is a privileged partaker, will make every student ' s heart glow with gratitude. A full sensing that he is thus literally an heir of America ' s thought and sacrifice and faith and hope will surely bring every student to his knees before the shrine of loyalty and of service. Nor will he rise until he has pledged, solemnly and sacredly, in the presence of the eternal Recorder of all sincere pledges, that, throughout all of his allotted years, he will be loyal to the shaping ideals of American ci ' ilization: Lib- erty, founded by law drawn for the common weal. Equality of opportunity- for all, and Justice, administered in accord with the dictates of the common will; and that, to the fullness of his allotted strength, he will serve, both alone and with others, to the high ends that uncleanness, greed, selfishness, and pride shall lessen, that cleanness, charity, comradeship and reverence shall widen, and that this, his generation, shall bequeath an e en better and nobler civilization than came to it.