At the University of Iowa the other day, the president, after an address of welcome to new students, asked the whole student body to hold up their right hands and repeat:

"I pledge here and now lifelong loyalty to the ideals of scholarship and character of the founders of this institution, to the end that I may loyally serve this University, this commonwealth and this nation".

If the little ceremony reminded some among those thousands of students that it was no mere accident, no matter of course, that opened that great school to them, it was worth while.

In their college life, students are naturally much taken up with what they are doing, what they plan to do afterward. If they think of what brought them there, it is likely to be of individual factors, of their own determination to get an education, or their parents. They experience usually a number of memorial celebrations of one sort or another. The difficulty with such celebrations is in making them reminders, not that men of not have been dead a certain number of years or that a college hall has reached a dignified age, but reminders of the thing in these men that made them worthy of remembrance.

What is needed is to get each of these young men and women asking the question: "Why are these halls here?" They have risen in response to the thought of men who found no such facilities waiting for them. They are the translation of dreams and visions. They are the working out of a spirit of service-the present always saying: "We will make the climbing easier for those who come after us, and they will climb farther than we could go". -The Milwaukee Journal