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Page 33 text:
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GOVERNOR O ' UANIEL To THE 1940 CACTI : The diMreing human confusion and turmoil existing throughout the world today, and the unsolved social and economic problems in our own Nation and State are certainly challenges to our red-blooded American young manhood and womanhood. Age-honored and time-tested customs, rules, privileges and rights are being . in-lied underfoot without reason or apology-, and no improvement in our social structure has been accomplished by such brutish methods. Surely all this indicates to healthy, normal, educated minds that some element in our human relationships i- larking or deficient. I iidcr normal conditions University students strive diligently for that higher i-iliiratinn which will tit them for pleasant and profitable life ' s work. Under these abnormal National and International conditions, University students must sense llu- all to something greater. Certainly this is no time for radical ideas or fanciful theories. Of such, the world already has too much. To you serious-minded University students who are ambitious to become useful leader in moulding the greater civilization of tomorrow from the wreckage of tmlay. let me Miggest that you delve beneath the camouflaged surface of freakish thought- .in. I fancies and start building your plans on the solid foundation of true Democracy, -inrere Religion, and high Morality. To men and women of your ability, the mere problem of making a comfortable lump i- not such a complex problem or such a full-time job as it has been for other- in the past. This will give you more time to develop your greatest heritage which is the OPPORTUNITY to elevate the TORCH OF CIVILIZATION and the Kl. (- OK FREEDOM to ever higher and higher pedestals. Texas has unbounded faith in you. and the world is waiting for you. Sincerely, GOVERNOR W. I.EE O DANIEL PACE 25
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PRESIDENT HOMER P. RAINEY 1 ' RESIDENT RA1NEY To THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: What shall I do to make the years to come my own? As you read this Cactus when it is first released, you will be more concerned with its immediate interest than its future value, but I want to say to you that in my opinion this is a book that will increase in value for you each passing year. Two, three, four or more decades from now you will take up this Cactus, leaf through its pages and remind yourself of happy days at The University of Texas, of the friends of 1940. You will wonder where they are; how they are getting along; whom they married; how many children or grand children they have; whether that young lad with the Longhorns this year is the son of good old Buck. These have been days that have meant much happiness to you. This book reflects much of your personal joy, as well as that of your associates. To me it is a pictorial record of my first year as President of the University; for many of you it is the record of your last year. Regardless of whether we are new or old, I hope that this year for each of you has been a profitable and happy one, and that in the years to come, when you look back on your days here, you will appre- ciate having been a member of that great host of men and women who have been a part of The University of Texas family. And when you do, the age to come will not only be your own, but the age of 1940 will again live in happy memory. ff. President PACE 26
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