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Metz of 1945 E give you hearty welcome into the family. It is part of civilized tradi- tion to celebrate the arrival of a baby, and despite the fact that this happy event is with us annually inevitable-we can control its size but we have no methods of academic birth control-we rejoice in your appearance. And while it is proper that without these walls we should preserve a decent modesty, it is a fact that being a close-knit family We think well enough of ourselves to believe that you too deserve congratulations as you join us. Like all newcomers, you will find that the celebration occasioned by your appearance will shortly subside. You must not be dis- appointed, therefore, as shortly you discover that you are being taken rather for granted and, like the youngest in every family, dis- cern in the attitude of your elders, whether cn the faculty or among the undergraduates, a combination of interrogative doubt as to your qualities, paternalistic regard as to your manners, and an affection which however sincere will not always be obvious. As you adjust yourselves to new conditions, you will find many helping hands. You will also find various rules and regulations. For myself I dislike rules and I wish that I had the wit or the courage to evade them. But I have lived long enough in an academic community to 4 ' The Presid ent's Message WooLsEY HALL, September 20, 1941 Preridefzt SUWZUZIV at lair desk recognize the futility of the impossible and I have come to accept them. For what my experience is worth, to follow or reject, you may have it without cost. So also in my rela- tion with the Dean and his faculty. They are gentlemen not only of wisdom, but with a sense of humor. But I have found it better to avoid attempts of my own at arousing their humor by over-unconventional behavior, for the consequences are not always clear. On the whole, I think the Dean and Faculty should be taken seriously. You will discover, also, I believe, that the chief treasures of Yale are not those you see around you in the material equipment, but are rather to be found in your own personal relationship with things of the mind and the spirit that the university traditionally fosters. Many of the ways of Yale seem strange to a newcomer. Appreciation of them cannot be taught as from a text book. It comes only by opening yourselves freely to their influence, by actually living the Yale life until you gradually catch the real meaning of places, and things, and traditions which have become very dear to us :-an appreciation of the Yale of the past which we count on you to pass on to future generations. Those values will come to you often merely as by-products of the laborious drudgery and unremitting exertion incident to the preparation of work in the class-room, they will result equally from

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compan1onsh1p on the athletrc held and 1n the pursurt of cmmpus mteresr, hterary, ZlCSfl1ClC1C, socxal To apprecrate the l1fe you must l1ve 1C There has never been 1 tune 1n the h1story of our nmtron when the call for men eqmpped by the college expemence has been so 1ns1stent as now md as 1t w1ll be 111 the ye mrs to come The 1II1IHCCl1'1IIC task of the nat1on IS to save from destrucuon those 1de1ls wh1ch 'ue essen t1al to our Ameucan l1fe, WlfhOU.TI wh1ch the un1vers1ty 1tself must per1sh, 1cle1ls Whlch are now under deadly attack When that task IS accomphshed, as I beheve 1t vvlll be, there w1ll relnam the more lengthy and more drill cult task of reconstructmg 1 world 1n wh1ch they may have freedom to flourish The test of the colleges w1l1 be the1r c1pac1ty to P1 oduce 1nen who by the1r own 1b1l1ty w1ll be tble to establrsh and muntfun the qL1'Ll1lI1CS that must be ch1racter1st1c of our people 1nd surv1ve good farth, rntellectual power the love of beauty, the hab1t of l1berty aclneved through self S LCf1HCC These serve to set the standards of l1fe upon the un1vers1ty campus, through you they may later be dlffused lfl the natlon rtself They are not freely bestowed by tl1e Lord but must be ach1eved through unrem1tt1ng loyalty to the obl1gat1on they nnply God grant that vou may W111 them NORMAN S BUCK Deniz Freshmen H B Armstrong III J J Arrom I Badger IH Bahlman Jr A Ba1tsell Banrung Baumer Brxnkley Brmklcv Brmsmade Brooks W Coker J J R S Conybeare F Crowley C J Davrdorns D S Devor Jr R D1CEflCh Donlnuser D05 le Duncan Edsall Ewing F1ger Fahrenbach Fmch F1shc1 R J F1tzw1ll1am Foord Gxlray V Guhclx J Hall Hammond H Harry Heck Henmng W Henrv D Hormng C Huffard T Keach M Kellmurray Counselors Kelsev I H Kennedy H B Klphuth C Klutz L Limb I T Lanman S Lovett K H M'1cDuffie M Mack T C Mendenhall II MCG Mersereau E J M1les I O M1ller Jr H Mxtchell S Mohr II E Mommsen K P1ckett C Pope F Poulson L Reed Rees R1Cl1'lITdSOll Roberts C Roley Rudm Schmechel F Schrelber Splegel L Stexens L Stexenson F Txller J I Tracey M H Vmton H Wagner Wanng Jr W Watson E Whltmg W1lson III H Wells Jr . ' . . . . - - 1 13.13. I L - C - ' Wir. . 1 , . - 2 K . . . 2 . G. . . U I , .L . . DC. n U r . . . .' C . l K.. - F' L' . . . . . . . ss. ' U I K . . . . . DIS. . p I x ' ' 1 ' - 11. B. D, , L . C -' . I F. . ,,r. . ' ' ' ' . . ' . - - - I A. . ' , . 2 C . C. c. I L . . A. I I ' ' L. I , L ' ' 2 - - 1 - T. . of all peoples if Christian civilization is to H. G. Dietrich E. 5. Noyes ' : 'l U , , 3 S -- L. . '- - L R' ' . . I '.' ' . . C U on. f 'D' 1 Q - 11. P. . A- ' . . A. . H. L. D. T' -. L r J H.B.'. ' L 1 ' M.J. . . ZLL' QB. ' E' , v H. 11. 1' , . , D. A. A.s. 'V U 2-A.. . , w. . 1 L.v. - ' 11. . . - - I L.D. . W. . ' 13.13. ' W. . D. . , AJ. . ' ,I . E. . ' c. . G. . L. . l D. . A. ' , B. . . . ,I . l 5