The Bronco, Yearbook of Hardin-Simmons University, 1940 Page: 29
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PRESIDENT
To My Students:
It has been a source of deep
regret to me that I have not
been able to know each of
you personally and individually
through this year, but I
am happy to have this opportunity
to tell you how much I
has been my prayer and hope
throughout this school year
that each of you might do your
part to make this the best in
the history of this great western
institution o f Christian
education, and I am sure you
have done so.
This school was founded
almost fifty years ago with the
expressed purpose of bringing
young men and women to
Christ, teaching them Christ,
and training them for Christ.
It is essential that we remind
ourselves again of these fundamentals
that h a v e made
possi b 1 e the phenomenal
growth a n d development of
this institution u p t o n o w.
Whatever achievements have
been attained here have been
attained largely through the
consecrated l e a d e r s h i p of
men and women, faculty, trustees,
and students, who dedicated
themselves t o t h o s e
ideals which a r e s o funda- JEFFERSON DAVIS SANDEFER, LL. D.
mentally eternal and for which Christ spent Himself on the cross. When these things
cease to be basal, the institution forfeits its right to live and merits to be relegated to
the things which in the past failed to render the rich and spiritual values that we must
render if our great Hardin-Simmons University is to continue to live and serve.
You have had and will continue to have a vital part in maintaining the high
standards which have placed Hardin-Simmons University at the forefront of institutions
of higher learning. I beg that you not overlook the three-fold purpose of education
here as it is revealed in the intellectual, physical, and spiritual training offered
you, and those who come after you. I appeal to you for a continuance of your love
and loyalty to the school and the ideals for which it has stood down the years, and I
pray that God in His infinite goodness may bestow upon each of you every joy and
blessing you so richly merit.
Tenderly, your friend,PREXY.
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