University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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p r € s i d e n rs messflG€ Failure is impossible were the inspiring words of Susan B. Anthony at her last convention. Hers was an entire life given to a cause that triumphed after her death. On her eighty-sixth birthday in a con- versation with friends she is quoted as saying: Just think of it. I have been trying for sixty years for just a little bit of justice, and yet I must die without obtaining it. It seems so cruel. But in the end she faced the future with that sublime con- fidence that comes to every man and woman who fights for a great cause — failure is impossible. Men and women of the Class of 1934: — Be true to the ideals that you have formed in your youth. There is nothing that will give you as great satisfaction as you approach the evening of life as a realization that the things you held to be good at twenty you know to be true at fifty, sixty, and ' seventy. I wish you Godspeed and give you this message: failure is impossible. Raymond G. Bressler, President twenty-three

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TH€ CORPORflTIOn OP R. I. STRT€ COLL6G6 Walter E. Ranger, President Commissioner of Education, ex-officio. Providence Harry R. Lewis Commissioner of Agriculture, ex-officio, East Greenwich (Appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate for term of five years) Zenas W. Bliss, Vice-President Providence County, Providence, R. 1 Robert S. Burlingame, Clerk and Treasurer Newport County, Newport, R. 1. Charles Estes Bristol County, East Greenwich Thomas G. Mathewson Kent County, East Greenwich Mrs. L. Mowry Schlesinger Washington County, Charlestown (Appointed by Governor from Alumni Association for term of four years) William C. Clarke Class of 1898, Westerly Lucius A. Whipple Class of 1907, Pawtucket TWENTY-TWO

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SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE nriD Home economics TWENTY-FOUR