Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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Words of Dr. Lvnch i ROT HERS, in the great outlying country I find few persons who know exactly where Wake Forest is. hut I meet with many who know where her sons are. The college is known by her fruits. She has spheres of influence in every field of endeavor, and her far-flung battle lines are holding their own. I voice their greetings and grateful affection for Alma Mater. Her lap is not filled with gold. Some of her garments are threadbare with time and toil and are not in the fashion of the day. Her hands are still hard from the poverty of lean years, but they are open and outstretched in democratic hospital- ity to rich and poor alike. She is not unduly proud of her wealthy sons, nor is she ashamed of her poor kin. She still lives in the old homestead remote from the centres of congested populations and accumlated we alth. Her house stands by the road, and she is the friend of man. Her children are her jewels. In a thou- sand places in the homeland and beyond the seas they rise up and call her blessed. They do not fear for her and she need not fear for them. The rich college will get richer, and the State institutions will grow stronger: but Wake Forest is built deep as the heart can love and high as the soul can pray. Voicing the passionate feelings of her loyal sons and devoted friends. I fling to the world the challenge: We shall live: we shall rise: we shall command. Dr. J, W. Lynch.