University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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I n(D its maw they come ty the thousands, farmer ' lad and sophbucated chy th. one descended from the mid-wesp afistocracy, the other with Kis - lineage all befoifehim.The master mechanician. Administration, zealous guardian of the honor that is Iowa ' s, tabes them all, aH alike, and mold the finished pibduct. citizenry of tomorrow.

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Progress INTO a land of rolling prairies, broken here and there by murmuring forests ; into a long of scorch- ing flats, and cool lakes trickled bands of coura- geous pioneers. They hoped and worked. They dreamed and were disillusioned. They succeeded and they failed. In creaking, jolting ox-carts they brought great blocks of stone from a quarry to the present site of Old Capitol, over three-quarters of a century ago. The timbers were cut from white oak groves of the surrounding hills. A Catholic missionary, an Italian scholar, Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli, designed the building. If those white pillars could talk they might relate the history of the State. They saw foundations laid in hope torn out in despair. They saw laws enacted today repealed tomorrow. But the present is ever kind to the past, and time is the great gilder of hu- man faces and amplifier of human virtues. If, by some magic power we could transform ourselves into the past, would we not in the next moment pray to be re-transformed into our own selves, living in our own time, nor find it dull by comparison? Old Capitol is now the nucleus of our Univer- sity, as it was then the nucleus of the State. As ox- cart gave way to team, the team to automobile, so has the University progressed. As waves of grain were swept into yawning bins; as villages grew into towns, and towns into cities ; as church spires pi erced the dusk of evening where wig- wams once housed the red-man; Iowa and the Uni- versity of Iowa have progressed. 21