University of Idaho - Gem of the Mountains Yearbook (Moscow, ID)

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Ge University of Idaho As the crown or capstone of the State’s educational system stands the University. Even as the law of gravity makes it impossible for a stream of water to rise above its source, so the law of mental and spiritual forces makes it impossible for the level of intelligence, of knowledge, of culture, and of public service throughout the state to rise higher than the level at which these ideals stand in the fountain head of the state's educational order. This means a strong, virile, broad-minded, idealistic and yet practical faculty, but far more it means a student body fired with the same ideals, who shall go out to serve the commonwealth of Idaho in lines as diverse as human activity itself. But di- verse as their activities must needs be, the sons and daughters of “Idaho” must have this in common that they are motivated neither by rank individualism which dis- regarding the rights and claims of others looks upon society and the state as legitimate prey, nor by the iridescent dream of socialistic communism in which sloth would be re- warded and intelligent initiative and industry robbed of its legitimate return. The University graduate must go back to his community better equipped in mind and body to meet the demands of the hour, better fitted to discharge the duties of cit- izenship, of fatherhood and motherhood, and better prepared to earn an honest liveli- hood, which is perhaps the first and highest duty which the individual owes to the state. The University graduate must be neither a reactionary, unable to see defects in the present social order, nor yet a revolutionary who regards chaos as the remedy for imperfection. He should be in the third class—a humanitarian, concerned with people rather than with things, and more desirous of fulfilling his obligations than of assert- ing his right. “Tdaho” is proud of the record her sons have made in the great war, and she is confident that the record of her sons and daughters in the “great peace” will be worthy of her soldier dead. With these ideals embedded firmly in their minds, the University students, as they become members of the distinguished alumni of their Alma mater—who are al- ready wielding a powerful influence for good in this young frontier state—will add new lustre to the fame of their University and will raise the level of manhood and of womanhood in our fair land, and this will be true irrespective of whether their field ior service be found ’mid the forests and mines of the north, or the smiling plains of the south, or in the mountain fastnesses and deep canyons which lie between them. FRANCIS A. THOMSON.

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