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Show results yet to be attained? And this too, though in these results the editors of the book, the Juniors, are to have no profit. The new Central Building, for example, capping the grounds which have grown in beauty during their residence, is to be an actual force for restraint and dignity only after they have gone.In the increasing effort of the University to be of utility in the study and solution of the problems which confront the state at large, opens an endless prospect for good, stretching off into the future, embracing the industrial and civic and cultural life of the state, and as well, the life of the institution itself, for a teaching force in direct contact with the State, not only the better adjusts its teaching in the University to the needs of the State, but is the more completely aware of the significance of its teaching and of the possibility of making it a greater and greater force in the life of students. A better State through a better University-an old ideal of the function of a University, securing hope of more complete realization through better organized service in the communities to which the University owes support.Doubtless the most important pages in this Year Book give the pictures and the student records of the graduating class. Nothing could prove more completely that the vision of the future gives significance to the present. The thoughts of the Seniors themselves are chiefly for what life still holds for them. This present is but a means to a larger life of brain and soul and service. The thoughts of those of us who1 see them go are for other classes as well, an endless procession of them, drawn here from all quarters of the State and more and more from quarters outside the State, bound together here through pursuit of common aims and by loyalty to the University, setting forth after residence here to more useful and richer living.Precisely what the future holds matters less than that it shall have this power to illuminate the present. This is vital.We of Utah, as underclassmen and graduates, must see to it that our vision of the future, even as it comes steadily true, shall also abide and command. Now and always we must keep close touch with our Alma Mater. In no better way, than the wise counsel and the enthusiasm and confidence which come from close touch, can we help our Alma Mater. With the help of wise counsel and enthusiasm and confidence, our University can keep constantly young and constantly growing. And with youth and the power of constant growth, our University always will be what it now is-a constantly better place in which to live and study.uro:13 |