Willamette University - Wallulah Yearbook (Salem, OR)

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Heritage and Prdspects of Willamette T IS GOOD to be well born. High lineage well used means triumph. Willamette is well born. Her an- 'cestry is strong in brawn, -bi'ain, and soul. Reared amid high ideals Which embody unselfish sacrifice, her life has extended through the years glad, free, h strong, commanding, conquering. Hardships have ? been endured, disturbances Within havetbeen calmed, right has been might, and the day dawns With neW splendor. The tiWillamette spirit7, is known far and Wide. It is a personality of achievement. It is cheer, glee, Vigor, determinat1011,' objective, patience, sacrifice, accomplishment. It arrives. It abides. Legends that hold history of a life are precious. Of these Willamette hasan abundance. They are expressed in wood and brick and mortar and stone and bell metal and turf and song and speech and debate and the press. And they are told also in loves and hatese hate 0f the base, the filthy, the cowardly, the groveling, the selfish, the envious,ethe things that make for deathe-love of pure women and strong men, love of integrity, love of nature, love of art, love of God. And these forces have dominated in lives innumerable, Which have challenged communities to high living. Now, Willamette7s sons have enlisted in a great world war. They are Willing to endure death for Freedomfs sake and for Righteousnessi' sake. Our beloved President Doney lives in uniform and works in France. We of Willamette are a world people. Around us. has grown up a beautiful city. The men that made Willamette owned its ground. It is the capital of a great state. It is a state that is in the beginning only, though more than two genera- tions old. We are a part of its making and its possibilities. We are in large sense the moulders of its life. Its resources and its future are ours. The call for Willamette men comes from a radius of five hundred miles to the northeast, the east, and the southeast, and westward to the sea. In almost every high school within this area there is a group of students to whom the ideals of Willamette appeal. We draw students from an area of 200,000 square miles, a land as W i. WIIIHUIIIHllllllmm m

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large as France. We have access to approximtely 15,000 high school students. ' What of the future? Our foundations, our friends, and our prospects answer the question. When the war is over, men who have learned the pleasure of giving will be looking for places of investment of their wealth. Where could they better invest it than in a Christian school that has such foundations? We need buildings and shall obtain them. We need more endowment and shall gain that. But we must maintain the Willamette spirit, for it has the supreme winning power. As the war surges, men turn to religion. We know its power at Willamette. This is a great strength. The war has cut down our enrollment of men. This is their honor; it is not against ours. Our service flag is bright and does not obscure our future. Much of our hope lies there, for when these men return, they will have caught a new Vision and Willamette will be a part of it. It is not probable that Willamette will soon become a large school. It is not necessary that it should. High ideals and high scholarship are its aims, and not all students are willing to conform. But those few who do will be a power in the new citizenship that the world soon shall seee-a power for their school and for the world at large. Their worth will be tested to the utmost. They will be sifted t0 the pure grain. Few of them will be knOWn as great, but many shall feel their power. So, needing buildings, we shall be greater than buildings, and we shall have them; needing larger endowment, we shall be greater than that, though we shall secure it. We shall be as of old, but with greater power, world builders in, character values wherein dwell the hopes of men. We shall hold sacred what the world in the last analysis has held sacred: pure motives, high ideals, tender loves, never- failing trust, energy and peace. ERNEST C. RICHARDS, Secretary of Education.