University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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V r c THE SPIRIT OF OUR ALMA MATER, THE SOONER, WHISPERS TO EACH DEPARTING GRADUATE VAE VIC- TIS, GO THOU AND CONQUER

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PROGRESS AND CHARACTER ARE INSEPA- RABLE — OKLAHOMA IS PROGRESSIVE BE- CAUSE IT HAS TRUSTWORTHY AND AGGRES- SIVE — LEADERS — MEN WHO HAVE THE COUR- AGE OF THEIR CONVICTIONS, WHO ARE WILL- ING TO MAKE SACRIFICES FOR THE FINER AND TRUER THINGS IN LIFE, WHO ARE NOT AFRAID TO FIGHT FOR THE BEST IN BUILDING A STATE THAT WILL REFLECT THE UNSELFISH IDEALS OF ITS MAKERS - - - AS THE STATE HAS MADE PRODIGIOUS STRIDES SINCE ITS ADMISSION TO THE UNION, SO HAS THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLA- HOMA ADVANCED AND ACHIEVED --- EDUCA- TION IS A VITAL FACTOR IN THE LIFE OF A CIVILIZATION --- THE EDUCATOR TAKES HIS PLACE WITH THE PIONEERS, WHO HAVE BLAZED THE TRAIL, SO THAT THOSE WHO ARE TO FOLLOW MAY FIND THE RIGHT WAY--- WITH THIS UNDERSTANDING THE SOONER OF 1928 IS DEDICATED TO A MAN, WHO EXEMPLI- FIES THE SPIRIT AND TRADITION OF A PRO- GRESSIVE UNIVERSITY, WHO STANDS FOR THE FINEST AND BEST IN COLLEGE LIFE, WHO IS GIVING HIS UNTIRING DEVOTION TO MAKE OKLAHOMA A STRONGER AND NOBLER INSTI- TUTION EACH YEAR - - - DOCTOR WILLIAM BEN- NETT BIZZELL