Ottawa University - Ottawan Yearbook (Ottawa, KS)

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Tradifion: Far on wind swepf, sandy mound, Far from shouf and noise of crowd, Lies fhe grave of noble savage, Lies fhe fomb of O. U. founder. lvlighfy Tauy Jones, Indian brave, Red man mighfy, friend fo whife man. Friend because of fhe Messiah, Love new found because of Chrisf. And years hence, when fhis is all a misfy, Foggy pasf, fhere will come a fhousand memories lncomplefe, vague, yef real and vifal: Full of colored connofafion. A walk down a counfry lane, A chance greefing wifh an old friend, The sound of a bird shrieking in fhe disfance, Rushing aufomobiles in a greaf cify, The color of a signposf, fhe flame of a sunsef, Dusf, rushing across Kansas: These, and a fhousand ofher images, pressing The magic louffon of memory, causing us fo Recall . . . recall . . . recall . .. We shall spend our lives in a greaf, infense search A search in which we will seek ourselves, And fhe besf fhaf is in us. We will search for Happiness. We will seek if in all fhings- Some will discover if--fhrough faifh. A bell folls fhe knell of a parfing day: lf marks fhe lasf hours of new experience And fhe beginning of an everlasfing guief. This life is a period of preparafion. Wifh pure or unclean minds we mould The subsfance of our efernify. This brief momenf we eifher cherish or despise. Each hour, each drop of sand in fhe glass Sees fhe flower bloom or fade. And We cannof find ourselves alone- There is one who rnusl' go wifh us. We know of Him. He is no mysfery. He is fhe ocean befween fhe Here and There. Wifh Him we find life. Wifhouf Him: ernpfyness. O losf! O found! The shop is closed, fhe candle snuffed- And all is silence! Forever silence! WILLIAM F. HERRICK TAUY JONES HALL. Wifh ifs fradifional dome, Tauy Jones Hall is 'Phe olclesf building on fhe campus. The original sfrucfure, builf wifhouf nails and dedicafecl in IB69, was for many years fhe only college sfrucfure. In I923 if was complefely remodelled and given over fo music, speech, and dramafics. The hisfory of ihis building has come down fhrough fhe years as a symbol of 'the beginning of OHawa Universify and ifs fradifions.

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THE COMMONS BUILDING. Visifed daily by 350 hungry sTudenTs. Besides The dining room and campus sTore, facili- Ties include The swimming pool, sTudenT organizaTion offices and lounges. The living, shining, silenT, moving air oT auTumn, The colors-dull browns, biTTer reds, bronze, The diTTerenT yellows-The smell oT smoke upon The air, burning leaves: a door slams And in The disTance The wail OT one soliTary Train, Treading iTs way across The naTion. From a blue, clear sky came winTer, and A lighT snow made The ground look like The sea, WiTh whiTecaps shining in The disTance. WinTer is wiTh us, and a dry, cold air ThaT passes wiThouT our noTicing iT. AuTumn is gone: The Trees bow poliTely BeTore The wind which genTly Turns up our collars. lce scars The paThways and a young lady Winds up seaTed on The cold cold ground. Kansas in winTer is wonderTul. While Michigan ciTies are snowbound We go golTing on Sunday. The grass is brown, Tlecked wiTh Kelly green. l.oveliesT Time oT The year was aT ChrisTrnas, When we wenT home, To moThers, TaThers, in-laws And old Triends. We came back To school wiTh new cloThes and gadgeTs7 Plus The same old vows To sTudy harder. WinTer: and The sniTTles, The baskeTball, volleyball, Slush and mud, The hoT coTTee and The crackle oT lce covered Trees, glisTening brighT in morning sun. We loved The TirsT cool winds- And reioiced aT spring's Thawing rain. Spring-and Tine showers on brown grass. Slick, mirror sTreeTs and sTorm windows removed. Black branches drip whiTe iewels While girls run, holding Their skirTs high. The Track, wiTh men in dirTy, smelly sweaTcloThes Running, iumping, Throwing, laughing, swearing. Ancl skinning Their knees on cinders. ThaT Teeling oT hopelessness, biTTerness, in The LaboraTories on Those moisT, sunny days oT spring. Nymphs and Swains, walking hand in hand, Bleary eyed, romanTic, reciTing Browning or Their own verse: The TruiT oT love-sick hearT. Summer-and beads OT sweaT dripping on Thick books Long classes and longer assignmenTs. STudy sTudy sTudy-Tick Tick Tick Tick- UnTil There seems To be no poinT in iT all. BUT some oT us worked: digging diTches, Teaching blond liTTle kids To swim and Throw a Baseball, reading, loaTing, playing, bumming. DRESS NIGHT in The Commons. Here we learn To be ladies and genTIemen aT The Table.

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THE INDIVIDUAL F Faces . . . inscrulable masks o1cpersonali+y...The markers by which we recall memories . . . conlaining The elemenls ol lemperamenl and aspiralion . .. elched around Jrhe eyes and corners of Jrhe moulh . .. Some marked wilh love, and olhers . . . emply . .. aching To be filled. Long faces, round faces, crooked iaws, a slraighl nose, drooping moulhs, red hair, sunken cheeks, flabby iowls, dimples, peroxide hair, classic lealures and Neanderlhal brows. Look al rhem . . . Jrhey fell a s+ory. Wax-qeemib v if im li 29 I 6 AC