Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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UTAH STATE AGRICULTURAL OOLLEGE ELMER GEORGE PETERSON, PRESIDENT 1 LOGAN, UTAH V A OFFIDEDFTHE PRESIDENT he T rNovember, l94O Mr. Karl T. Homer Editor, THE BUZZER Dear Mr. Homer: g T r e T , T T l In addressing a few words to the students of the College I am anxious first A of all to express my appreciation of the loyalty and devotion to our ideals which have particularly characterized this year, on the part of the students.T This devotionT has been strengthened by the dramatic and critical nature of the times in which we ' live, days so fraught with portant of good or evil that we all have been raised up L E to new levels of thought and emotion. e by ge Ml ,T T These are days of fulfillnent, spoken of centuries ago by the prophets. Atl 3 the beginning of this century Christian civilizationggvnfolding, seemed about to flower into a continuing multitude of blessings for mankind, in the promise of a high standard of living for every willing worker, an almost lran unlimited educational opportunity for rich and poor alike and inpa very plethora of invention and dis- covery to alleviate suffering and release men and women from the deadeningfdrudgery. which over all our past has been their lot. ,Suddenly the World War, and what followed it, blighted this hope, as greed and lust for power ravaged the earth, culminating in the present almost unbelievably vicious and terrible warfare which has all but destroyed the faith of man in himself as its engines of destruction level to ashes the physical structure of our civilization. T T To keep this bestiality from our shores is the first duty of America, not alone for the protection of our lives and our firesides but also that we may pre- serve fer ourselves and all the world the very ark of the covenant of hu an rights now entrusted to us and the few other peoples, notably and gloriously Great Britain, e who, as this is written, still remaina free.. To do this we must first of all be l clean and strongg and power can come only from unity and unity is possible only if . our lives and our motives are above reproach, if the very conscience of us is clean. Eternal truth, which is all education and all religion, alone can make and keep us V free. T, T pa U To the students of this College, nurtured on this truth in the homes from which you come, these days are the final challenge, it may be, to our worthinessT to inherit this blessed cou try and its ideals from forebears whose heroism and 'whose faith become now a light to guide us through the dangerous days ahead. ,May every one of you be blessed with understanding sufficient to meet the sacrifice, and it may be the hardship, which await us. But have no fear, these sacrifices to be required of us are but the testing fires, prelude to the greater beauty and righteousness which some day will grace the earth. ' V ' Sincer y yours, T , President V

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President Fredrick P. Champ Entrusted with the Welfare of over three thousand students each year the Utah State board of trustees has done consistently Well in assuming its responsibilities. Unique, because of their intense interest both in physical and mental educational projects, the trustees often have opportunity to realize theirs and the student's dreams because of untirinq ef- forts toward Utah State advancement. ga! ca!! fl