or medicine, is thrice armed and equipped for his life
work.
Instead of hunting for Latin roots and conjugating
Greek verbs we puzzle our brain over the slide-valve; for
Cicero’s orations we substitute the plowboy’s merry morn
ing song, and Virgil’s Aeneid we supplant with the
poetry found in the ever unfolding processes of nature as
set forth in the study of Entomology and Botany. In the
cold hard inexorable logic of mathematics we run parallel
with the curriculum of other Colleges.
The nightmare of unsolved and apparently unsolvable
problems is ever before the student here as it is in the out
side world in which you live and move, but with this
hopeful difference, the student here labors under the halluci
nation that he is daily nearing the goal where there will
be no more problems to solve and his tired brain will be at
ease. Happy, happy illusion, possessed only by those who
are yet to enter in its broader sense upon the solution of
that greatest of all problems—the problem of o ne’s own
life. We who are contending with the realities of life
know that difficulties unknown to the college student fol
low each other with almost the certainty that night fol
lows day and press for solution upon aching heart and
tired brain.
In the fierce struggle in which we are engaged, Col
lege days are soon looked back upon as an “oasis” in the
journey of life, surpassed in beauty and glory in mem
ory’s treasury only by the greater brightness and splendor
of childhood.
The Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas