American University - Talon / Aucola Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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WNLY time can lend prestige to tradition, but time alone is powerless without the leaven of search- ing minds. Aucola is an attempt to portray, as clearly as camera and pen permit, the birth of this new tradition, the fostering parent of mature intel- lectual individualism. Aucola, copyrighted in 1938 by the business man- ager, James Donald Pettus, takes you across the broad and growing campus of The American University, to the faculty as they work, or ride their hobbies, to the departing Seniors, and to the Juniors who are just coming into their inheritance. Just as Life takes you to a party, so Aucola introduces you to the campus activities in their own environment, to the athletes on the field of competition, and to the fraternity men and women in their social comradeship. s Co s 81814

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L L L CO- FOREWORD . . . IvTANY mores and cus- toms have grown about The American University already, but in this, its thirteenth, year there has ansenanew credo. Spread- ing from mind to mind, gathering volume, a dis- satisfaction within the stu- dent body grew into a plea for a finer adjustment of student-faculty relationships. As naturally as day- light follows darkness, came the call for a restate- ment of the fundamental concepts of higher educa- tion. With the report of the Student-Faculty Com- mittee, a new tradition was born — a tradition of facing problems of undergraduate life on the plane of basic philosophies. . . .

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Dr. Lois M. Zucker, exponent of the classics, clog-lover, and gardener, came to the College of Liberal Arts in 1925, the year of its founding. And she brought to the student body the largess of a truly cosmopolitan temperament and abroad understanding. Her retirement this year marks the departure of a great personality. In 1926 Dr. Delos O. Kinsman came to the University. A kindly disposition, keen sense of humor, and a deep interest in students ' prob- lems have endeared him to the school. His re- tirement at the end of a dozen years of faith- ful service to high standards deprives The Amer- ican University of a distinguished scholar.