University of Northern Iowa - Old Gold Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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R O S P E C Eigh+y-nine years of progress in Iowa educa- tion. Long years of struggle, bitter years of near despair. Then years of success. Years for valiant hearts; years for flowering minds. But ever faith and courage for the future. Four years of college, intense, rich, full, but four years of depressed spirit for those who have faced the spectre of want and fear in the outside world. Four years when despair reached long fingers into the cloistered atmos- phere of campus and classroom. But withal, four years of rare opportunity to grow strong, to gird armor, to edge the sword of faith. Hear! A new call for pioneers!

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A T I O N To a Pioneer among pioneers in the cause of good teaching in America, to the grand old man in Iowa education, to a great spirit un- daunted through early years of hardship, un- sullied by years of fame and success, to a great soul warm with humanity, grand with simplicity, kindly, gentle, generous. To a man who won others to his way by simple candor, by being simply what he was.—To the mem- ory of Homer Horatio Seerley, president of the Iowa State Teachers College from 1886 to 1928 and President-Emeritus until the time of his death, December 23, 1932, we dedicate this book. 1

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o W O R D Today, as yesteryear, go forward, O Pio- neers! Strong hearts stronger grow, taking courage from courage of the past. As those who struggling across unmarked prairie, waist deep in snow, did break through to meet in rough hewn cabins their shivering scholars; as those who from years of financial panic did carve staunch spiritual foundations and upon these build to great careers,—go foreword! Ever in the midst of distress and hardship, ever from the depths of seeming great de- spair, the legion and leaders of progress in Iowa education have marched unfalteringly forward. March you, also, O Pioneers, and do not falter!