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

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Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good toe oft might win By fearing to attempt Measure For Measure, Act i. Scene 2 Only a brief time remains for those of us who support the cause of higher education to cast aside doubt and make bolder demands for those things in which we believe. At a point in history when true education supplies the only solution to grave problems — answers to the questions raised by the technical advances in atomic science, automation, and the manipulation of public opinion — many are fearful of asserting themselves to attain the quality of education which our children deserve. The future of education, and consequently the future of the nation, in a large measure lies in the hands of those who will be graduated from this and similar institutions in the next few years. If those in a position to realize the advantages offered by education fail to demand the same or greater opportunities for those who follow, we will have suffered a disastrous setback. The whole concept of equal educational opportunity is being challenged in the name of economy when, in fact, the percentage of the tax dollar spent for higher education has been shrinking steadily since the first World War. The “good we might win is too important to lose. But it will require a vigorous effort by all the friends of education. PRESIDENT E. H. KLEINPELL