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Show Does not the fact that there are among us this year students from Mexico, Canada, England, Germany, Greece, and Japan, permit the thought that we may even become a place of resort for students from foreign lands? These various students ought to be welcome. They bring a point of view which is different from ours and which ought to help us to keep from growing narrow. No greater boon could come to us than the power to be of more than mere local service.For the future of the University no one of us can shirk responsibility. Away from the University, as graduates • and students, we can interest young men and women in the opportunities that she offers and can see that she is rightly understood. Those of us who are here should be especially anxious to make the University a hospitable place for all who come to join us. Upon us, too, devolves chiefly the task of maintaining our college activities on a plane which shall be in keeping with the dignity and high purpose of education.Upon the administration will devolve chiefly the task of managing wisely this process of adaptation to the needs of the state which has characterized us thus far. But even in this administrative task students and graduates can be of service. By the moderation and good sense in which they have been trained by the University, they can show that they expect these qualities in the University. Every loyal student and graduate must realize that the life that counts is not hap-hazard or feverish, that steadiness and soundness of growth must sometimes depend upon apparent indifference to the demands of the public upon us, that endurance no less than adaptation is essential to health.Our graduates of the future, like those of the past, are to be the managers of our industries, the controllers of our commerce and finance, the directors of our public service. These great tasks will become greater and greater. But our graduates are also to be leaders in community life and 'home life. At no time will power to be the one justify indifference to the other. After all, we must expect training for manhood to continue to be the chief concern of our University.F. W. REYNOLDS.(14) |