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

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The Champ Returneth!

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The President’s Message A college yearbook is both a mirror and a witness. A s a mirror, its pages reflect the campus scene from day to day, flashing glimpses of the multitude of activities that crowd our busy hours. It interprets the life of the college, both to the members of the college community itself and to outsiders, by picturing the people and the events that together make the college what it is. As a witness, it testifies of the events and achievements of the year, and thus becomes a permanent record, indispensable to the future college historian. In my office is a file of THE GRIST, dating back to 1898. When I look through these volumes, my admiration for our college is quickened. They tell as nothing else has done how this institution has grown from small beginnings to the great things it is doing today. Their pages unfold the splendid story of ever expanding service to the state. In the faces of the young people here pic- tured from year to year, we read the promise of the achievement their subsequent careers have so richly fulfilled. You will value your GRIST now, as it comes from the press, but you will prize it still more highly years hence when you reach the age of reminiscence and can look back upon your col- lege experience in perspective. I can foresee the day when the children and the grandchildren of the Class of 1949 will take this volume from the shelf and pass many a gleeful hour scanning its pages and rediscovering their forbears, even as today we are intrigued by the college scenes pictured in THE GRIST of fifty years ago. This has been a significant year in the life of the college — in physical and academic growth, in program of service, and in responsibility to state and nation. In like manner, THE GRIST of 1949 will surely take a significant place in the ever growing annals of the college. 8