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CROCEUS 33 Letter From President Rhees To the Editors of the Croceus - It gives me very great pleasure to offer my congratulations to the women students of the University of Rochester on the appearance of the initial number of their Annual. Your decision to issue such a book is, in my judgment, both wise and opportune, and I believe that it will con- tribute much to the best interests of our women students, and thus to the interest of the college as a whole. During the first years after the admission of women as students, they were too few in number, and their own life as a body of students was too little developed, to justify the venture on which you have auspiciously embarked. But I have felt for a year or two that the step you have taken would be a wise one as soon as the women themselves were ready to take it. For the publication of a book so peculiarly representative of student interests must manifestly be undertaken on the students, own initiative. Now that you are ready to take that initiative, I welcome your publica- tion with the utmost corcliality. Like the women's class day, inaugurated so worthily last year, and the women's musical, dramatic and athletic organizations which have enjoyed a longer, though no more promising life, this new undertaking marks the gradual, and therefore stable and normal, development of independent student consciousness. This from the beginning it has been our desire to foster. In no way can the equality and naturalness of the status of the women in the college be more healthfully demonstrated and cultivated than by such developments in the expression of their college life by our women students. I wish your new venture the largest success in every way, for you are marking a path in which succeeding classes will Walk, and I look forward to reading the book with great interest. With great satisfaction in everything that makes for the growing rich- ness and significance of the college life of the women in Rochester, I am Your very sincere friend, RUsH R1-mes.
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32 CROCEUS the death of his daughter and consequent breaking up of his home, rather than leave Rochester to live with his remaining daughter, he remained here, practically alone. Speaking of his home, I wonder whether I can give you any idea of the atmosphere of it. It was there that one found, even more than in the classroom, evidence of the breadth of his culture and experience, for there were the pictures, letters, and other mementos of his travels, study, 'acquaintances and friendships. There also it was impossible not to see the great love of the good man for everything good. If only you could meet him, what a happy impression you would have! l-le would extend his hand to you, with slow spoken, kindly words of courtesy, which would make you feel as though you were talking for the first time with a life-longefriend of your father, whose great desire was to make you also his friend, and to render you some service. I believe that this appreciative friendship of his students was even more necessary to him than to us, for while we came and went, each with our own aim, his sole purpose was to minister to all mankind through us, and therefore we constituted his field of influence, his great life work. So every word that came to us from him, came with a sincerity and force which made us love the man, then and always.
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