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pelling clearness the results of our actions, we could not face the conse quences of heedlessness, of greed, and of selfishness. With that picture before us all, much of the stupidity of the world would come to an end. Wars would cease. Oppression and cruelty, hunger and disease, the exploiting of the weak by the strong would lessen from month to month.
And to you in your individual lives imagination would bring forbearance, generosity, selfcontrol. It would be difficult, is not impossible, for one with the far-reaching \ision of a compelling imagination deliberately to
sacrifice others to his own impulses and his own desires. He could not for long make his own heart the dwelling place of hatred and revenge. He could not live with his own knowledge of the pain and suffering that follows wrong, and make no effort to right that wrong.
UIt is a negative view, you think, that ! am giving you. Yes, that is true. We do not value good unless we know evil. We do not compre hend the beauty of love unless we appreciate the devastation caused by hatred. We cannot grasp the Importance of our mistakes unless we can visualize the unhappy results of those mistakes. So, if you saw the pain and suffering that must follow certain conditions, you would be impelled
to change those conditions to bring to the world, as far as you could, some thing better, something as good as you could make it. And In so doing you and others like you might in time change the picture of the future that today holds for the man of imagination.
Members of the Class of 1922, cultivate the power of imagination. Learn to see the cities of the future and help to make them beautiful to the eye, beautiful to the mind, free from all the misery caused by the short
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sightedness of mankind.”
Lhe graduates were :
Katharine Edmond Acosta Agnes Roseburg Beebe Margaret Anderton Borland
Margaret Stevens Button
Kathryn Parker Clark Judith Newton Claybrook
Martha Cluverius
Eleanor Newman Cooper Elizabeth Howe Fenner
Anne Planten Gaillard
Hildegarde Dey Halliday Jane Johnston Hull
Rebekah Blaine Lipscomb Jean MacLeod
Hester Oakley Meigs
Serena Deas Murphy Alargaret Johnston Robertson Susan Kempton Searle
Elizabeth Stebbins Walbridge
