University of Cincinnati - Cincinnatian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Ki K, 1938 WILL BE A MEMORABLE YEAR ... we shall remember it because of a new social life brought by the Student Union . . . because for the seniors it marks the end of their four-year trek and the beginning of reminiscences . . . because of countless events and in- cidents of the academic year . . . for all these things we will remember it but, more especially, we will recall it as another milestone in the cycle of Time. The 1938 CiNCiNNATiAN, like Other college annuals of this year, will mirror the surface of university activity, will inadequately portray our struggles, achievements, dis- appointments . . . the casual ingredients of undergradu- ate existence. But beneath this superficiality, there is the deeper sig- nificance of the 1938 CiNClNNATiAN and all the other year books for they reflect another year of progress in American education . . . progress in science and the arts . . . but above all progress in maintaining some measure of academic freedom. And the propagation of freedom is true progress. We do not wave the flag with sentimentally blind patriotism or glow with smug conceit over the American Way Of Living. America is not the land of equal opportunity nor is it yet a haven of complete intellectual liberty. Far from it ... we have more than our share of economic inequality, polit- ical abuse, social injustice. But as yet our press is un- teiisored, our professors speak their minds, and no- body dictates. With increasing interest in world affairs and in a solid front for peace, collegians of 1938 look abroad . . . note the inroads of Fascism, military dic- tatorship, and the abolition of individualism. And de- spite the intervening oceans, the class of 1938 views with alarm . . . trembles under the towering shadow of WAR . . . because it knows that It Can Happen Here. It will happen here unless we are zealous in protecting that freedom we enjoy in 1938 . . . that freedom ex- emplified by the undergraduate design for living. The class of 1938 will protest every curtailment, every threat to that freedom. Yes ... we will remember 1938 . . . because in 1938 we retained some LIBERTY, not a little of LIFE, and un- restrained PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. K K