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PRESIDENT LEON W. HARTMAN teild nt 6 Me iaai Another year passes in review! Agani we appraise the events of the past year and on. Life ' s ledger we credit and debit the events of 1941. Last year war clouds hung low along the horizon and the storm seemed to be close at handj today the storm in all its fury is upon us and war is a grim reality. Each one of us 14
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now beholds a changed situation. Our sons, our brothers, our relatives and our friends are being summoned to defend the Nation ... In the midst of the changes which are now taking place about us, we note the great emphasis which is placed upon the thoroughly-trained and well-educated man. There is an insistent and incessant demand for the technical expert, be he mathematician, physicist, chemist or engineer. Youth, recognizing its opportunities, its responsibilities, and its obligations, is clamoring for training along these special technical lines. Not so long ago it was the fashion among certain groups to discount and disparage high scholarship and thorough training but, when tested by the exacting stand- ards imposed by war it is found that the man who best meets and satisfies the demands of the present emergency, is he who in his college days was most thor- ough and diligent in his studies . . . The college man of today realizes, as never before, that he is part of the social order into which he was born and that from this day forward until peace is secured he will spend his life in a world dominated by the forces of destruction. During his brief sojourn at the university he must prepare, so far as is possible, both for war and for the aftermath of war — the problem of peace. Although the collegian constitutes but one per cent of our population, he knows only too well that, like it or not, in the world of tomorrow leadership will be thrust upon him. The educated youth of today takes seriously the call to service, and he knows that the summons will surely come to every trained man. A new standard of values now dominates his purposes for he cannot ignore the imme- diate present or the teachings of history. He dare not fail to secure for himself the best possible training for inevitable leadership ... It seems reasonably cer- tain that the one institution of our present civilization which will survive the longest is our system of education. It will change, as will all our institutions, but it will survive. This is, therefore, no time to be overcome by a sense of futility. Now, if ever, is the time for this generation to make the supreme effort j now, if ever, is the time for every man to place his shoulder to the wheel and exert his utmost effort. The defense tasks which confront the nation require the best thought and effort of all trained and educated men . . . The problems of the present and of the future constitute a challenge. Even though he knows that the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, youth strips for the race and girds himself for the battle, to insure that liberty shall not perish from the earth. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low. Thou must, The youth replies, can. GERALUIXE IIARDMAX, Scc.lary U, the Pr.-sidcnt 15
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