Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

Page 8 text:

A Penetrating

Page 7 text:

Redeem The unread vision in the higher dream While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse. — T. S. Eliot.

Page 9 text:

MIND Western culture is searching itself. Some of the searchers discover that will to maintain the standard of living made possible by modern technology is in itself a vain pursuit For unless it is guided by principles more adequate to the facts about man and his universe than an advertising man ' s dream of a mechanized New Jerusalem, then we may be sure that our hopes are chained to the shoddy, the cheap, and the trivial We are not the first people to have felt the burden of materialism crowd them into an uncertain future; for throughout history the same sense of drift has impelled men to declare themselves to whatever they have held sacred, hoping to redeem themselves for the threatening oblivion of prodigility and vice. Standing at the pinnacle of time we can look back into the past and see that the success or failure of these men was determined by the principles behind their choices. Such men are snowf lakes falling through the night. Some are ignominous in depths, while others fall beneath the street lamp ' s light to become the gems of the race What are the principles of those whose lives have been resplendent