Ursinus College - Ruby Yearbook (Collegeville, PA)

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President's Message TO THIC students of Ursinus- past, present and future, come cordial greetings from the one of your number whose duties are in the conning tower. For twenty years it has fallen to our lot to keep a weather eye on the horizon and at the same time to see that nothing untoward arise?- in the near environment to harm or impede the ship. Nor ha- the discernment of storm-clouds and the averting of dangers been the important part of our work. Rather have we looked far and wide to observe the fairest seas on which to sail and the richest ports from which to load our cargoes. Will you accept assurance from your pilot, that never did our keel run so deep, our course lie so directly toward our coveted goal, nor did we have on board so happ and hopeful a company as that which cheers us on our way today ? The crisis upon which society has come is not a collapse but a climax. From the viewpoint of education and religion we observe an encouraging reappraisement of values. The youth who are setting forth in life today face more stable and dependable conditions than those of yesterday. Material foundations upon which to build careers do not seem so alluring. The futility of the mechanical svstem has become evident. That which the world had thought most substantial has been revealed as most insubstantial. To give up the old ideas and ideals and to accept those which arc coming into ever clearer focus, is to give up the ephemeral for the eternal. Those who go out of college today enter upon an age of rebuilding. Opportunity for the application of sound learning in the perception of new situations in society, of educated emotions in the formation of new relationships among men, and of versatile volition in the world of action, otter to the college men and women of tomorrow a field for service such as mankind has not seen since the days of the Renaissance. In this new age success will not be measured by amassed wealth, but by that which the Ancient Greeks held up as the goal for their youth, namely human worth. Upon a plane of living made possible by scientific knowledge— a plane higher than any upon which man has ever huilded a civilization before, there is to be erected a social structure more just in its civic character, more equitable in its economic working, more charitable in it spiritual manifestations and more truly world wide in its scope than any which has yet appeared on this earth. To evolve this new and better state of society will be the work of men and women trained in colleges like ours. I hercforc, look well to Ursinus. A mission unmatched awaits her. Keep her lit for any sea and make sure that she will ever take her course not from false lights along the shore, but from the fixed stars in the eternal heavens. Gf.orc.e L. Omwakk [12]

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Administration

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Georoe L. Omwake, Ped.D., I.L.I).. Prttident [13]