Marion University - Marionette Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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During your year at Marion about 175 of your days have been class days. You have attended about 175 chapel services and more than 500 classes. You have spent perhaps more than 750 hours in classes, labs, and chapel and supposedly a few hundred hours more in class preparation. Classes are after all the big job of college life. They are one of the chief reasons why we came here, they are the basis of collegiate life—no classes, no college. They demand the largest share of our time. Though they are not all our education, they are the basis for most of it. Indeed college days are class days and class days are college days.

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i The library with its new semi-indirect lighting system (not shown in the picture) and its 16,000 volumes on the shelves furnishes appropriate study facilities and environ¬ ment. This familiar chapel scene pictures President McConn reading one of his favorite Psalms at the morning convo¬ cation. Sitting at one of the work tables in the lab, Professor Parker’s physiology students learn by seeing the unseen— through the magic eyes of the microscope. — i

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Maybe class days are blessings in disguise, but they are blessings. In the classroom we have facts and ideas presented by a professor, and they are ex¬ plained and interpreted—bare book facts colored by the personality of the professor. In the morning chapel service we pause for spiritual refreshment, and sometimes for special programs which entertain and in¬ struct. In the library we avail ourselves of any of the 16,000 volumes and in a quiet, conducive atmosphere we can study. In the lab we learn by experiment and trial, the hard way—and the best. In the gym we keep our bodies fit and strong to stand the heavy demands of student life. Class days are blessings. In the college thesaurus they are the richest rooms.