Inaugural Address: The College, Its Ideals and Its Problems: President John Hanson Thomas Main, Ph; D., Iowa College Commencement, Tuesday, June Twelfth, Nineteen Hundred and Six (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Excerpt from Inaugural Address: The College, Its Ideals and Its Problems: President John Hanson Thomas Main, Ph; D., Iowa College Commencement, Tuesday, June Twelfth, Nineteen Hundred and Six

The We are gathering the fruits today from Gifts Of the 'seed that was planted sixty years ago. The Fathers It is a rich harvest, and it is only the be ginning of richer harvests yet to come. It is fitting that we turn our thoughts for a moment to the work of the pioneer fathers who planted, that upon them we may bestow the tribute of praise and love which is their due. Their gifts were small, but they multi plied the value of their small gifts many fold, because with them they gave themselves also. Their money was reinforced by faith, devotion and love. They understood the value and meaning of education, and all they did in organizing and developing Iowa Col lege was directed by high ideals - hence their gifts had in them the elements of unlimited growth. The Iowa College of their day was a prophecy of the Col lege of our day; the College of our day is the prophecy of a greater College yet to come. Greater in size it will be, but not in the spirit of devotion; greater inits range of view and in its comprehensive grasp of world problems it ought to be; but greater probably it can not be in its spirit of sympathy with human need. Iowa College will carry on its ideals to a fuller fruition and will adjust them to the complex demands of the present day. However large and powerful the College may become, there can be no greater work than this for it to do.

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