Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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Facile pm'nceps DAVID L. MGTAGGART Classic and Professional Clarissima insignibus nobilis vitae CLARISSA E. SMITH Classic

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ic motto: Vaitas vos in libettatem vinbicabit .039 Officers Secretary, Clarissa E. Smith T reasurer, Hilding A. Swanson Historian, Clay W. Hockenbery . , . 0'ra-t0r, Charles C. Sherrod 44741114442: 12012716254 Charles A. Weller Toast Respondent, Charles J. Keppel Editor 0f Annual, Elmer Funkhouser a 300 foressi'onal Lmotto: Tbucatio vita 4st 4 , . a a a 4 ; Officers mhiion Curtis ' . esident, Elmer F unkhouser Seeretary, Irene V. Putnam T reasurer, Columbus C. Whisenhzmt Historian, Elsie Elizabeth Heck Orator, Henry G. T eigavn H411. Brown .Eropketess, Emma A. Coudroy T vast Respondent, Charles C. Stash Editor of Annual, M. Reece Edwards

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PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. DAVID L. MeTAGGART. EMBERS 0f the Class, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is the natural destiny of every man to receive successively, as continually widening Views of his own nature, the great lessons of the agents of this social environment. While yet a youth, in the home, he is taught that greatest of all lessonsethe lesson of obedience. Next as a learner, in the school, he becomes developed, his body is made the fit medium of expression for the mind, his mind the fit governor of the body, and the embodiment of rational ends in itself. Following the school he comes into the business world whose great lesson is the inter- dependence of men. Here it is that he recognizes that alone his efforts are futile, combined with others he can perform a great work. As a member of the business world he must necessarily come into contact with state and church whose fundamental, underlying ideas are those of justice and righteousness respectively. ,Tis only through these elements that one can 'come into the fullness of his growth. Only by learning their lessons and habituating his conduct to their ideas can he rise through them to the full measure of his self- consciousness. As a child, in the institution of the home, he is not himself, he must be. another, imitate others, and Obey others. He becomes himself only by sub- jeeting himself either unconsciously or with effort to others. Accompanying the adolescent period7 the youth in school develops his powers, becomes all his nature permits, and gains the sense of his individuality and independence as a man. In the business, state and church worlds during the period of manhood he must find himself in the service of others, must make himself a contributor to society and must find his self by first losing it. First obey, then become, and then contribute. These are the natural stages of self-realization. The first two of these we, as a class, have in a measure accomplished. We have learned to be obedient, and during these few short years Of school life, an epoch of development, we have become what we are, learned the meaning of life, and encountered a few of her great problems. And now as we are about to go out from this great institution of learning we are confronted with the third great questionethe question of service to our fellow beings. . Are we, as factors of society, permitted as we have been during these years to withdraw for sequestered study, to develop the best body and mind