CHANCELLOR SAMUEL AVERY

The Chancellor

OR many years I have been asked to indite in the pages of the CORNHUSKER a few words of greeting. So again I improve with pleasure the opportunity to greet students, graduates, faculty, and all loyal Cornhuskers everywhere. I have learned that the keynote of this book is "Looking Forward." Needless to say, this is the keynote of most of the CORNHUSKERS. Implicitly, it is the spirit even of those CORNHUSKERS which have a distinctly historical aspect. For in the life of a university it is peculiarly true that we often see the promise of the future in the accomplishments of the past. And so in this moment of looking forward let us remember that we see visions of still greater achievement largely through the eyes of those whose labors have made possible our present confidence and optimism.

   If our University is to fulfill its destiny as one of the leaders of thought in this section of the country we must advance in all worthy lines of endeavor. Cultural subjects and vocational subjects must progress harmoniously and sympathetically. The faculty must be strengthened whenever opportunity permits. Problems educational, problems financial, and problems in the broad sense spiritual will confront us. Our progress will depend on our ability to meet these problems as they arise. judging from the phenomenal growth of the institution during the last twenty years, we can look forward confidently to the future. It should be the ambition of everyone now entrusted with responsibility-and this includes everyone from the Regents to the students---so to build that when those of the future look over the CORNHUSKER of 1926 they will realize that the hopes and aspirations of that day were prophetic and not a passing enthusiasm of the hour.

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