Southern Methodist University - Rotunda Yearbook (University Park, TX)

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1955 STAFF Hlnry Kirby, Editor Nancy Campbell, Associate Editor Ed Bearden, Art Director Martin Reese, Business Manager American Beauty Cover Company, Cover Laughead Photographers, Photographer Southwestern Engraving Company, Engraver Economy Advertising Company, Printer I . n the haste of the present we often do not take time to stop and con- sider the spirit of learning that pervades twentieth-century American Colleges and Universities and from whence that spirit sprang. When the Roman Empire fell and all Europe was plunged into the Dark Ages, it was the medieval European Universities that kept alive a feeble spark of the glorious culture of the Pagan world. When the Ren- aissance fanned the spark into a great fire that illuminated all of Europe, it was England of the First Elizabeth that constitutes the height of the new learning for English speaking peoples, and it is William Shakespeare who typifies the spirit of what was best in the English renaissance to us. The early colonists brought the spirit of Renaissance learning to the New World and transplanted it to the early domestic universities. With the hope that that spirit burns as brightly as ever and in tribute to its heritage we here present scenes from SMU of 1955, against a back- ground of Elizabethan England, within the framework of a Shakespearian play. ,■. ' .•. JWA■. ■A v.v.%w. s ■. l v.sv.■. .■. v■.s ■. w

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Methodist University

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