Oakwood University - Acorn Yearbook (Huntsville, AL)

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..,...a.a.iM..l..1 .... M., .1 ..,... Q.. A..... Library 'qwgak me rg The library being always open, and the walks and reading-rooms about it free to all Greeks. -Plutarch Formal education applies its pattern to the mind, but only through books does the mind itself, enrich, deepen, apply, modify and develop those patterns in individual life fulfillment. There is no place Where the intellectual tone of a college is more evident than in the library. Oakwood is anxious, therefore, that its library be used for study, and quiet dignified conduct is required of all who enter its portals. The administration strives to add worthwhile volumes with unrelenting regularity for circulation and for reference, and maintains subscriptions to over 200 periodicals and magazines. A group of Well-trained, efficient assistants provides adequate library service and gives necessary help to students seeking information on topics for research. Attention is also given to building up collections of material by and about the Negro. A well-needed library building will be erected this year. Construction will commence during the Spring.

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The mam that hath no music' in hirnsr-lf, Nor is not moved with concord oi' swcr-t sounds, Is lit for trcasons, strutagoms, and spoils, Tho motions ol' his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erobus. Lot no such man bo trusted! ASl1ukr,-spa-u1'o. EJACKSON, lnstruvtorollNl1,1f:f':.rifi Suriv-r M. LINDSAY, Organ Student 'qi N. -' NX Q2 W l i I. BOOTH, Instructor ol' Music This alvpzirtinvnt ol The instrurtors uonsidci zixvurc of what is h lu- will be ublc to ht-lp L'ont'rontvcl. Evvry plurcd in am cnvironmc This providus outh- thu studcnt the plain- ii srvulur Lictivitios oi Tho Musik' Dcpui'tnu'nt t 'S Q S 'Mx .t .l i ll M i L 'tL1e.v IJ- th- .,.,l 1. ' .usivail tru:n.ng is 1.7l'llf'Il llf than zinjs 1-thy i,.Y v , 1 v . ,. . . A IIIYN .ins n.1.iz.' 11, . r .. .fik'.'QiiLl plum-s of rv T1 rh thug: inixhtzljq tho collt-gc is Dir'-111, 1. 4 and inzilic thu ixtusit :itil at 1 uppomng an ri-xttutipwzgizw' s . 1 solve miisztnal pxolwlcriis INN student tniollvd in trim Q nt ui' :wh .intl vgi1'1vti :till t L t lu oiztstsiitiziitg .alfilmy music holds in llclzgton I nxt lub Tho rx-citnls .ans . luxtzmg thc suhnwl ytxxt' xx in thc mxnds of the stiiiii-rits, .. .1-.1-.-

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Non-Departmental Fine Arts Good painting is a music 1 f 1 of nr i intellect only can apprcciatr at with difficulty. V , . the Qg t, ' In every heart there is an inherent love for beauty. We are made so that we respond to the ideal and the in- finite even though we cannot and do not fully comprehend either. The beauty that we seek is definitely found in art where the artist deals exclusively with things as they at'- fect the human soul. Art is the in- terpretation of the great eternal real- ities of life. Throughout the ages philosophers and intellectual men have been unable to agree about what and who Christ is: but human hearts in every generation have united in love for this matchless personality in whom the ideal ot' all men, individ- ually and collectively, is realized. Here at Oakwood we feel that the universal love ot' beauty is one ot' the resources of human life that Christ- ianity ought to pervade with its spirit, and claim as its own. No wonder John Keats declared: Beauty is truth, and truth beauty.