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Show â- <•••-IP;'DR. GEORGE THOMASi • -â- •. •" '••iV".The Presidentâ- There is no position in community life of greater importance than the office of president of the state university. He is, in a sense, the master of the destiny of large numbers of young men and women who will, in a few short years, help to control the course of affairs in their own state at least. He is their guardian during an impressionable age, when often the seeds of good or ill are sown. â- We feel fortunate, to say the least, in having at the helm of this institution such a man as President George Thomas. He typifies that too rare combination of business man and scholar in whom beats a human heart. Few realize, perhaps, the myriad matters with which he is compelled to keep intouch. He guides the financial policy of the school with a firm hand and with farsighted vision. Yet he cannot become so immersed in fiscal affairs as to forget for a moment that the primary purpose of his institution is to speed the intellectual development of several thousand men and women each year. Nor is this all, for there is a spiritual side in education that is very important in any civilization; and, rightly or wrongly, thousands of parents place upon his shoulders the added responsibility of the welfare of their sons and daughters. â- We cannot too strongly attest the fact that to President Thomas goes much of the credit for the enviable position the University of Utah has attained.Twenty-three |
