Culver Military Academy - Roll Call Yearbook (Culver, IN)

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DEDICATIO X O ALL those old boys, who, from 1895 to 1934, helped to create tlie Culver Spirit . . . To them who, in the realms of finance, industry, commerce, and the arts and sciences, are helping, by their example, enterprise and zeal, and their expression of the civic virtues, to maintain the Cul- ver Spirit . . . To them, the Alumni of Culver, the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-five respectfully dedi- cates this volume. 10 FROM THIS BOOK Our v and ' ring mem nes, drifting astray, Slip back to Culver years, Through the opened book that does portray Our youthful hopes and fears. The tac, the roommate, and the boys, Appear before my vision. And pages filled with hours of joys. The life of close precision. Then we were boys, just children playing, But filled, I seem to find, V ith noble thoughts and views, betraying Our youthful, carefree minds. But nov , in spite of busy days, With worry ' s fretful sweat. Our Culver days and Culver ways We never shall forget. — Frederick C. Linxweiler, ' 35. f -

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T. HE FLAMES of the bonfire flicker on the bronze bodies as these primitive people dance around their totem .... Around the fireplace in the university lounge gathered a laughing group in whose midst stood a frightened little animal — the mascot of tomor- row ' s opponent .... Even a vivid imagination may upon first consideration find in such ideas an appar- ently unbridgeable gap, but just as the beginning and end of a story bear a certain relationship to each other, so in education ' s setting today is found some faint re- semblance to the first crude surroundings. To understand the history of education is to see how progress is effected. The barrack-like huts of the Spar- tan school boy, the gymnasia, exercising ground of the Athenian youth, the Roman ludus (elementary), the additional accommodations of benches and even paintings of the grammar schools of Rome, the guild school with its shop-like atmosphere, the advanced architecture of the early medieval universities, were all stepping stones to Franklin ' s contribution to education — the first academy. All have played their part in es- tablishing the architectural character of the schools and colleges of today.