University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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DEAN DF ADMINISTRATION MY DEAR FRIENDS OF THE CLASS OF 1939: You have been a part of the University during a dramatic and exciting period of its history. Inside the State and nation and outside in the whole world of affairs questions of the utmost moment have been impending during your en- tire college career. I think that you have dealt with these ques- tions intellectually and in terms of feeling and action with a fine self control and a splendid aptitude for genuine participation in the current world. You hove certainly, in addition, brought warmth, color, and exuberant vitality into the life of the University and the University com- munity while you have been here. You have not been without particular problems in campus life and government. I think you have handled them well. Nothing on the negative side has occurred here but what you have developed something on the positive side to balance the situation and carry it forward. You have developed fine leaders in all aspects of healthy student life, and I think permanent qualities of leadership are evident in your class. At the same time, I hove the utmost faith in the great body of the class — men and women who are not yet conspicuous and do not desire to be, but who in the quiet processes of study, work, play, and imaginative fellowship have been laying the basis for significant and beautiful living You graduate with the friendship and sincere good will of all of us who have been privileged to associate with you here.

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DEAN DF STUDENTF TO THE CLASS OF 1939: Your graduation year comes just 150 years after your Alma Mater was chartered by the new-formed legislature of North Carolina. When the legislature of 1789 projected for this State a democratic provision for higher education, all of Europe could have laughed at such presumption. Government was then the pre- rogative of royal families. Without such divinely ordained guidance, the belief was, men could have no government. However, those patriots of a century and a half ago wagered their lives and the destiny of their chil- dren on the assumption that freedom and enlighten- ment could develop in men the leadership of conscien- tious intelligence. Then North Carolina, with less than 400,000 citi- zens scattered throughout her forests was exceeded in population only by Pennsylvania and Virginia. That these and ten lesser commonwealths strung along the edge of a vast wilderness hove within the century and a half grown so in space, numbers, wealth, power, and significance, is surely one of the great dramatic facts of history. Now this yoLing colossus of 48 states with 60 per cent of the world ' s gold, with frontiers in Guam and on the Rhine, faces again t he issue of its birth. Can free men freely regulate their personal and collective FRANCIS FOSTER BRADSHAW DEAN OF STUDENTS action by intelligence and conscience? ' Con we build here a government of wisdom and justice ' ' May your graduation be but the beginning of a richer partnership between you and Chapel Hill, in which you shall fight for her liberty and she shall guarantee you and your children light.