University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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TUTIDNAL ' ncipte c OWe » — - -.at .»... «»a rarlitinn is the molding force of a migfity scliool. A great university is known by the symbols which represent it. Missouri is especially fortunate in the traditions which have grown up around her ivy-clad walls. They are the life-blood of a rich loyalty which all her sons and daughters bear toward their alma mater — fostering mother not only in name, but in the actual inspiration and vitality given to those whom she has cradled. The ideals which her noblest and best traditions represent and the thoughts which motivated them are passed on to the stu- dents who walk her paths by an illumined leadership which remains undimmed as we look back at it down the years.

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jjft; jh!;?- .-:- - ■ j, . ■ 7 5 Walter Williams President of the University and Dean of the School of Journalism The 1934 Saviiar PRESIDENT WALTER WILLIAMS I ' HEN Walter Williams decided to pur- sue his chosen journalistic profession in Columbia, that he should some day be associated with the University of Missouri and should eventually become its president was inevitable, for no one realized more fully than he the close relation between the school and the press and the powerful educative factors of the newspaper. However, the fact that he was twice offered the presidency of the University before he finally accepted in 1930 is striking evidence of his quality of not swerving aside until he has first reached his predetermined goal. In this case his predetermined goal was the building up of a journalism school which would approach perfection in training future editors and reporters of the world and which would foster the ideal of educating as well as informing the people. In the twenty-five years since the first journalism school in the world was founded at Columbia, the school under the leadership of President Williams has achieved success and international fame and has sent its graduates to the four corners of the earth. Then, and then only, would Walter Williams turn his attention to other fields. A summary of his traits and character- istics is unnecessary if one ponders over the fact that though he never went to college as a student he has frequently been said to possess the degree of B. E. — Best Edu- cated. Should one expect to find a brisk, snappy individual he would be disappointed, for he would find a quiet, unassuming dignity, for Walter Williams is not the classic example of what one should expect to find as a go-getter. But, as President Williams, he is the classic example of what one should expect to find in the ideal uni- versit ' president.