University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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The 1952 Tomahawk, like its predecessors, contains all the usual features found in a yearbook. In addition, there are three new sections, two of which, we hope, may become permanent in future annuals. The ROTC and Alumni sections represent two groups which make import- ant contributions to Omaha University's successful relations with the public in its effective a1'ea. The third new section, the theme section, was added after careful deliberation and planning by the staff. It represents a somewhat radical departure from the usual material found in a yearbook. Yet, we felt that the present state of international uneasiness and crisis and, at the present writing, the conflict in Korea, justified the inclusion of a sober note in an annual which, for the most part, is usually dedicated to the graduating class and launches it on its uncertain journey into the future with a cheerful and optimistic note. One look at today's world should be enough to convince most of us that unless there is considerable change made in the path the world seems to be following, optimism, more than ever before, will be a most unrealistic approach to life. Our theme, which has to do with the responsibilities rather than the privileges of freedom, was designed with the thought that it might remind some seniors that, in the world they are graduating into, the old standbyes-success, security, happi- ness, the personal yardstick by which failure or success in life is measured, become secondary when compared to the serious, ominous threats to our way of life which are so omnipresent in today's society. A quote from a speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt sums up pretty well the position of those who are graduating from universities in these years: HTO some generations, much is given. Of some generations, much is expected. This generation has a rendezvous with destinyf,

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DEDICATED TO THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1952: The chief thing is to have a soul that loves truth and harbors it where it finds it. --Goethe