University of New Hampshire - Granite Yearbook (Durham, NH)

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if Q CUZL The highest goal of a Professor is to live in the hearts of his students and to instill in them the ideals for which he has worked. Dr. Alfred E. Richards, through his thirty years of service at the University, has attained this goal as teacher and friend. Always fair with his students, he asks only that they he fair to him in return. Those who do not know him personally know him as the composer and writer of tl1e MNew Hampshire Hymn, a song which will remain with us and with our graduates for many years to come. Dr. Richardis life and education have taken him from Yale Uni- versity to Munich, Germany, where he received his doctorate in the early years of this century, and to universities reaching from the east to the west coasts of the United States. Here at New Hampshire, he was head of the English department for many years, during which time his fine reputation and influence were established. Therefore, it is to this man whose ideals have strengthened ours, whose fairness has increased ours, and whose life as educator and friend has done so much to make our university what it is today, that we, the Class of 1943, dedicate this book.

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,,.,,-,,L,,,,,:,,5,n,. ,if J- 1-Q., .-:.,..,,.L- , .1 was-1 afar . . five G1 amtes Turning the pages Q a shelf in our library there are I ' . f ue e life B04 f of these volumes the other evening a panorama o co g 3 enfolded and the days of the past Hve years in Durham crowded each other into one D' As this new volume is compiled we find ourselves at war. Campus life is rapidly reflecting the many new responsibilities that fall to us in a country in uniform. We who shared the Convocation experience of December eleventh last will never forget the unity of spirit that then came to a focus as we reviewed the tasks that we accepted F 2- 4 gs Sv ,, 1 p L if grand composite yesterday. . gh 'S HIC as ours. ' l Gi 'tes are faces of men very many of whom On the pages of the olc ram with the armed forces. During those yesterdays they were boys and now they ' ' ' ' d mine. As I write these words thoughts are fighting to preserve your liberties an expressed during the University Day Convocation on September 24, 1939 flash into consciousness. I quote. 'Gln times like these when the world is troubled, when foreboding and anxiety Hll every human breast, and when every mind is wondering what is to come of the increasingly hideous strife, it is 'fitting that we keep free from these horrors and all they imply and consciously cherish the good and simple things that make us what we are when at our best. Yes, it is more than fitting. It is essential that each one of us knowingly hold tight to those things of life which men have held dear and that have made life worth living through all the past. 'We may well shrink from the news of war, the appeal of propaganda, and the suffering of mankind but shrinking from them is not constructive. lt is difficult to know how to keep mindful and yet have a mind free and rationally under- standing. This must be, however, if we are to preserve those values of human life so that they again may serve as the star for human progress. I am of the belief that the vital values of life cannot be properly realized without the help of vigorous young people. The continuous re-definition of those values when ' ' ' f' ' lwithout achieved in social and economic hfe can hardly be properly scrutmrzec ' ' and ood knowing what the young person himself finds promising C g . Hlve cannot cultivate this quality of human spirit with indifference to the storm that rages on all sides. But the consequences of the storms should be clear to us and should not stop us from building stronger the life we live f 'ietuatin the democracy which we cherish ...... or perl g MA campus with its productive activity, with friendly rivalry on the fields, . . . .Q 1 b with stimulating work m classroom, laboratory and studio, with the trrec oy Cl1'Zl!gll10' himself home at dusk from football practice, or from track, with a . p . . h fl e clock that strikes the hour sometimes to please or to sometimes to annoy, wit ' ' ' l ' 'th the Hood House where each additional lighted window has a meaning, wr friendly faces that pass by, with the fragrance that comes and goes with the . . . . . . k l ' z from the College Woods, with the lights in the buildings that ma e one nee e conscious of the work and play, with the laugh, the cheer, and the song that ontfineously from the hearts of youth there we should find freedom. comes sp . Yes these seemingly simple things symbolize freedom, and the life worthwhile. lf each one of us gathered here could only make the best of them what a place this would bef' l like to think on these somber days that New Hampshire men and women wherever they are may gain new glimpses of this spirit that is ours to help carry on when the sledding is hard and to help give a quality to life when the going is good. 6 ' gms fd... President -1-'--ff--4-a...L5i,.-Y.. . .-,.,-4,1 .,-,.,.A A , , ' -cfff'--fG:n.1-.:.a2.cara-er 3-, L -.-f-af-.Q-1. ...,.. WN V Y .-,--i...:.,,,.A V.- -s - ... .-.. .. .i K. -G.-r15-a:-:uzn:.-.-.xs,.L,,3,,g,,g553-,5, W4 -