University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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 3DEALISM is a priceless virtue; it is an attribute of youth. We must look to the students in our institutions of learning today to keep alive our idealism and to foster those sentiments of honor and loyalty, without which our free institutions cannot endure. American schools and colleges arc the best training grounds for citizenship. The American student entertains a high type of loyalty for his institution. This is one of the splendid things connected with student life. It is a splendid thing for these institutions to have the enthusiastic loyalty of these young men and women, but the chief significance of the kindling of these sentiments lies in the profound influence upon the lives of the students themselves. It is to be hoped that the River Falls Teachers College, its student body and faculty, will always endeavor to create an institutional atmosphere, in which all the higher qualities of citizenship may develop and flourish. Education is consecrated to the betterment of mankind, not to the training of a few selected leaders. In a democracy it is highly important that this fundamental conception be kept clear. No more serious mistake could be made than that our institutions of higher learning be organized and administered in the interest of the select. Education in our country must have as its objective, the improvement of the intellectual and ethical perspective of the great mass of our citizens. We do not need holders of worlds records; we do need the intellectual and ethical elevation of all. bf • . Ticc tn-Onc

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President J. H. Ames Twenty

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John M. May Ticenlv-Two