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Caption: Booklet - State of University (1958)
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J ? s Introduction Each year it becomes more difficult for me to compress within the limits of a single address a discussion of all the topics which call for attention under the title " T h e State of the University." T h e difficulty arises partly from the temptation to make this statement a kind of annual report, but it also comes from the expanded activity of the University, the enlarged significance of its work, and the increase in the number of problems with which it must deal in order to chart a sound course. T h e choice of subjects is also difficult, for in retrospect, the issues, decisions, events, changing circumstances all seem to run together in the continuing stream of University affairs. John P. Marquand in his latest novel has his playwright protagonist observe that in any drama there is always a "well-constructed turning point, but in life you were always too involved in living to make a successful analysis." We must not be too involved in our institutional living to make a successful analysis —for our future will be influenced by our present objecti\it\ I therefore welcome this occasion which provides one of our few opportune tie for useful introspection. a
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