University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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and i am waiting for the last long careless rapture... and i am perpetually waiting for the fleeing lovers on the grecian urn to catch each other up at last and embrace... 'Q4h love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain,' And we are on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight Where ignorant armies clash by night. -Mathew Arnold and i am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder. -Lawrence Ferlinghettr

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W I ll T-1 4' W n QQ - v' 13:1 5 xv X Xx if rv f . S5 M Lzg,-2. .... inf, r wx ' W' QM ul .Q an N 9 'Q 592 . v M L X xl lm ax' x , I , W The morning of the investiture was as quiet as the rain. The rain was soft and silent and it was absurd to even think of going to class. All classes had been cut short by half an hour and it was more trouble to determine when the class would meet than it was worth to go and hear your name read from a roster. ...a deep and genuine concern for the future of all of the people of the University. It was a morning either to sleep or to read. The ambition of a few to radicalize the many does not respect a gentIeman's code of conduct. If you chose to sleep, you could awaken occa- sionally and hear the cars as they traveled on the wet streets. lf you chose to read, it was wiser not to read a textbook and not to think about college or what the new Chancellor would say. ln the broadest sense there are three major purposes of a public university... Later. it was possible to walk around the block and smell the sharp odor of the rain penetrating deeper than any summer rain could, but not as painful as the cold of winter, ...the basic data of a master plan for which we will seek the approval and support of the Board of Regents.