University of Cincinnati - Cincinnatian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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L. A. Pechsteix, Ph.D. Dean of the College of Education To the Student Body : Science has late ' y been studying human genius. Here is the verdict: — the genius is gifted bj ' nature, true; yet he rises to greatness only if he hkewise dis- plays persistence, confidence, and force of character. Alma Mater would give character equal place with intellect. You have proved and developed your intel- lectual powers through twelve or more years of schooling. Are your ideals equally well educated? Alma Mater zealously cherishes your dual progress.

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H. Schneider, B.S., Sc.D. Dean of the College of Engineering and Commerce I tell my students freciuently and frankly that I am not for a minute inter- ested in training them to make money, or to possess sharper mental tools to edge out an easier life than the other fellow, or even to build bridges or run factories or devise mechanisms just for the act of building or running or devising. The real game of life has no such narrow limitations; and fortunately most yoimg people don ' t want such Umitations. If a student graduates from this school with the idea of getting all he can for himself and of giving as little as possible of himself; of accjuiring a material pile at the cost of a dwarfed inner self; of measuring success by tangible values rather than by intangible values; then I have failed in my job, and so have they. . c

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L. T. More, B.S., Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School You, Mr. Editor, have urged me to give your classmates a parting word which may live with them in future years. The best I can do is to remind them that they have had, during four years, the privilege of learning the great legacies from the past in both letters and sciences. Recollect this experience as frecjuently as possible in order to enjoy the happiness of a full life and, from a knowledge of the success or failure of other times, to perfect a sound judgment in meeting the problems of the future. While most of you will not enter the Graduate School, yet it has unobtrusively been respon- sible for the scholarsliip which you have enjoyed. It is told of Saint Antony, of Padua, that he became a great leader of thought and conduct by first retiring into the desert ; men, observing his disregard of ordinary affairs, out of curiosity followed him to his retreat in great numbers that they might learn of his power of self-control; so scholarship, as a true guide to life, should be sought for and ought not seek men that they may disco er its rewards. c. ' I ' o • . g