University of Pennsylvania - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1926: T THE threshold of the University, with your faces turned toward the world, you may well ask yourselves what has been gained as a result of the years spent in study. How do you differ from the youths who entered the institution four years ago fresh from school? You have had many contacts with life, you have had experiences of all sorts which have enabled you to interpret life more intelligently, because you know more about it. You have been brought into contact through your courses with various fields of human learning. You have been under the influence of teachers who have imparted to you not only information concerning their several subjects, but also something of themselves, their enthusiasms, their views of life. With such preparation and training you are able to take up the problems of your own lives, and each of you will strive to apply experience and knowledge to the problems by which you will individually be confronted. If you have used your opportunities, you realize that the subjects studied in classroom are not the only contributions that the University has made to your life. Among yourselves you have formed associations and 'friendships which have given you a broader conception of the world. You have disf covered that it is not necessary that men should be absolutely in accord on all subjects. You have discovered that there are certain broad principles of thought and of conduct which educated men and women have in common. Those who have been educated can see further than those who have not been educated. The University of Pennsylvania has been to you a mother during your undergraduate days. The University has nourished and cherished you, and you will look back to her with affection, with loyalty, and with gratitude. May I extend to you, both personally and officially, my affectionate good wishes, and may I express to you the hope that what you have learned in the University may be merely the foundation for lives of usefulness and happiness. Faithfully yours, l24l

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THE CLASS MESSAGE HE timefhonored custom of leaving a message of parting to the fair mother of our university career now confronts us and finds us at a loss how to put into words the emotions that crowd about our final days at Pennsylvania. Inexpressive aspour words may seem, still we hope that they will in a measure express the genuine feelings of the Class of 1916 toward the farffamed institution to which the members are now obliged to bid farewell. It is a sign of marked affection to declare publicly that here at Pennsylvania we have experienced a development and stimulation that we believe we could not have hadlelsewhere. Within four brief years our Alma Mater has most freely proffered us the fruits of her interest and concern. Enveloped in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of her campus, we have come to look on life with a broad eye and a distant vision. Seated in her, halls, we have heard priceless words fall from the lips of seers. In the wide range of her activities, we have met those rare friends whose like we shall never meet again. The Class of 1926 has been unusually fortunate in being able to play a part in the inception of a huge plan for the expansion of Pennsylvania. It is gratifying to note how far our University has already advanced in this movef ment. We take this opportunity of reassuring her that we shall continue to assist her in her lofty ambitions by responding with devotion to any future summons she may give. With justified pride in calling Pennsylvania our Alma Ivlater and in being called in turn Pennsylvania men, we turn away with lingering steps from her halls with these affectionate words on our lips, Ave atque Vale! Wm? 70 l26l