University of Arkansas Commencement Address, 1958

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Collection:: Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
Title:: University of Arkansas Commencement Address, 1958
Publisher:: Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
Date of Original:: 1958
Subject:: African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas
Location:: United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
Medium:: speeches (documents)
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: University of Arkansas Commencement Address given by University president Dr. John T. Caldwell.
African-Americans -- Blacks -- Education -- Fayetteville -- Washington
of a university. Whether hopes are realized or not realized depends upon many things: the quality, character and dedication of the faculty, most of all, and then perhaps some other elements as buildings and equipment. Since 1871 this University has had a reason to be proud of its effort and of the persons whose names adorn its past. In the present too wee have such names, who too frequently and too soon reach retirement. The attainments depend too upon the students who come to study in these halls, laboratories and greenhouses. Who are they and whence do they come? They are you and they come mostly [form] the homes of Arkansas, expressing the ambitions and hopes, the standards and the outlook of a proud citizenry. If we have fallen short in providing the kind of environment and experiences for you which you deserved, no doubt you already are conscious of it. The unfol- ing years, however, will remind you of the positive and good influences of this University and will tend to diminish the others. May it be so. You will also reflect upon what you've learned here with unfolding wisdom and fresh insights from time to time, enriched by you own inherent capacity to reflect upon existence and life. Do you remember Walt Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"? 'When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the Proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, to divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars." how many things learned here will become meaningful to you later on in some unsuspecting moment, and in quietness of reflection sometime, or in the preassure of conflict perhaps? - 5 -
Metadata URL:: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1822
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Original Collection:: University of Arkansas Office of the President
Contributing Institution:: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
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