Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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The clink of test tubes and metal, the short dry crackle of electricity . . . wondering voices of students gathered e . . . the sounds of scientists learning . . around ct telescop Science - FOR BETTE R LE I 22 J ARNING

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ff' :Lx :Q can HE if Fl FII? .X . A A J if 2 . . . Four stories of bricks, stones, wood, and glass, moulded by education-reaching fur above the tarrecl roof and for beyond the white stalwart portals. 11

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. . . The whisper of turning pages and the ereaising of chairs as restiess, weii-meaning students try to force their thoughts away from the briiiiant sun- light outside . . . these are the iibrary noises. And those in Keiiogg have a speciai air because behind them is the hoiiovv echo of whispers and creaks of forty-two years. The voices of iibrarians and the stacks and stacks of books are oniy a front for the ghosts that fiii the reading rooms and penetrate the very sheives . . . the ghosts of iearning in the past that are caught up in printed words and heid for- ever on the printed page. The chipped paint and musty waiis wiii make way for the shiny new buiid- ing now being pianned, but Keiiogg Library vviii never be repiaeed. Wherever students may go to read and study, wherever anxious iibrarians ask for quiet, there wiii hide the echoes that have buiided from the past. Library is f V si A E231