Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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AFTER NINETY-SEVEN YEARS, IA recording of feeling-its method is the jux- taposition of more or less meaningful ideas, made useful and more poignant through their environs.J There is rhythm in learning, with apparently aimless and rambling quest, periods of seclusion and periods of ebullience, a capture of insight, and the exhaustion that follows a prolonged period of work. BU is at once a part of the world and a world in itself, like a scale model of the way bigger places are run, with people in charge and people who work here and people who come to live here. Some of us are here to learn and some to teach. One group earns a living here, the other spends one. As far as most BU people are concerned, the place is bounded by West Campus at one end, Med Center at the other, and the Charles and the Pike extension on the sides. Its depth is the rare book vaults and it's as high as Law Ed. In most cases BU is four years long. Iacob Sleeper, one of three Boston University founders, is described as having been wise, cheerful, tactful, winsome, shrewd, and modest withal-a thorough-going gentleman of the old school. His portrait shows him to have been full-bearded, noble in bearing, with a certain benign handsomeness of face and figure. Daniel L. Marsh Chancellor of Boston University President 1926-1951 And as we have grown, Boston University has grown. In four years there have been many changes-some we have questioned. There have been differing opinions, and many of us had to resolve conflicting loyalties. But dissent is the vitality of a college community. This vitality is its source of growth. During the social transi- tion many have worked with imagination and dedication to make BU a better place. We salute them. This concern is the spirit that we will carry away, and it is precisely this spirit that will draw us back. Student life onward rushing morning noon and evening in a constant state of motion surging forward past the union oops watchout for the glass door forging onward listening feeling life is fast take-a-break coffee friday brings the weekend. We are impaled on a crook of conditioning,-a fish that is in the water has no choice that he is so. Genius would have it we swam in sand. We are fish and we drown. We remain in one world and wonder. The fortunate are taught to ask why. No one can answer. Iames Dean The content of education is kept open and rel- evant. nothing can remain static a state of flux exists around us we're gradually drawn into it and a community of people evolves Experience is never limited, and it is never complete, it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness. Henry Iames We've lived the good life as if we knew what it was 'cause a man's got a right to talk about what's on his mind' that doesn't necessarily mean he's the revolutionary kind. Sonny and Cher Hey Girl-with sunlight in your hair! Ronnie and the Daytonnas a young girl, a young girl of fifteen, child of springtime still green Charles Aznavour and there's a long-haired girl to ease my mind Tom Paxton people-adding warmth to the landscape love-happening in a situation the more alive for it effervescent laughter breaking into sadness

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The scene changes, but the aspirations of men of good will persist. Vannevar Bush The city and the University are participat- ing in an agonizing reappraisal of their purposes, their human atmospheres, their facilities for implementation of new ideas. Our proximity to great varieties of landscape has nurtured usg deserted Cape Cod beaches, mountains to the north, and villages long her- alded by painters and writers, are witnesses to a unique kind of diversity. At the same time, as we have learned to see our environment in many new scales of speed and magnitude, we find ourselves enabled to change it more quickly and more profoundly than ever before. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Bergson To be called to the Presidency of Boston Uni- versity requires devotion, judgment, patience, experience, and other talents of the highest order. It is unique among institutions. It follows no beaten path, but blazes its own. Iohn L. Bates Governor of Massachusetts at the installation of Lemuel Murlin as President of Boston University, 1912. All the genuine, deep delight of life is in show- ing people the mud-pies you have made: and life is at its best when we confidingly recommend our mud-pies to each other's sympathetic con- sideration. I. M. Thorburn This book is a mud-pie made unknowingly by the class of 1966, over a course of four years. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Winston Churchill Pedro Novak To President Harold C. Case, President of Boston Univer- sity, with gratitude for his leadership in the creation of an environment in which the intellect can perform.