University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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A .5 waz, ,ff 1 f Q! if WM! . i t . A.,.,4, TO ALI. Tl-IE STUDENTS OF Tl-IE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS' The University is a world within itself. All the elements which enter into the life beyond its walls are manifested here, in a manner none-the less real even though they be upon a smaller scale. Barter and exchange, competition and co-operation, the interests of the individual and of the community, business. politics, and religion, the relations of amusement to work. the opportunities for service or for self-aggrandisement. the motives and ideals of the outside world, -all these are to be found here, with which to measure our strength and to test our mettle. . But the University is more than a world within itself. It is a preparation for another world, a world into which it has been sending its graduates for these past thirty-four years, and can therefore only be fairly considered from this dual standpoint of being at once an end and a means to an end. a life and a discipline, and we must not make the mistake of ignoring the one for the other. The University earnestly desires to do its share of the world's work. but in so doing Ends itself largely confined to one single avenue of approach. Its impact must be through you, who are living now in its life and are soon to go out to live the other life. The field is the world, and the student who accepts the University's conception of life finds his chance, his field of operation, not so much in the University as in the world. Time and money and per- sonal service have been spent in and upon the University, not for its sake merely, but rather that it may be more attractive. more efficient, more compelling as a power in the world, and the students own worth as a University man is inescapably measured by what he counts for in the world of men. The men and women of the University must live in the world, in its politics and in its trade. the life which the University conserves. That is our only opportunity. The ideals of service and the motives of enlightenment and love which are taught here are not matters for statutory enactment, They must be incarnated in living persons. Their true ex- pression is not through educational platforms and resolutions and creeds, but in and through University men and women. The realms of social and civic life, of business and of government. will never be controlled by the principles for which the University stands. unless and until the men and the women of the University go in and possess the land, able to match wits with wits, to meet strategy with strategy, and to measure against the endurance of selfish greed, the superior endurance of unselfish public service. Into this other world you are again soon to go. some of you for a brief excursion. some of you for permanent residence. It is needless to say for me that our best wishes go with you, for we could not have had the association which this year has brought if your going were to terminate abruptly the vital 'interest which we have taken in your equipment or break the ties which have bound us to you. If you have learned to put men first and things second, if you have learned to put service first and self second, if you have learned, each of you, to hold your place and count for one in all the relationships and responsibilities of civic and political life, our present joy in you will be our future strength to expend upon other generations of students to the great benefit both of the University world and of that which is to come. X I X ,, Wi B., , . lf . , sis ., - 'f W Ama, -fee.. ,llll Me . VITKVOIT I y-H ve