University of Missouri at Kansas City - Kangaroo Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Dances, parties and coffees integrate students. 'XII if not wlcmnily in the claw rmun. highest experiences possible, in at once a selective and comprehensive sense. It is ll0l until the university is left behind that we realize what intellectual bonds we with our colleagues: that atmosphere can be recaptured in the variegated world we of., in the iuterinl. as the 'touts-ide. The ories we carry into another world are 1101 lousg they are the catalyst which will share never think mem- frivo- shape the universe into which we reach. The univer- sity is the realm of vision. but meant to be transmuted, through the training of capabili- ties, to a reality extending to infinity. W'l1at we discover here, the truth of man's relation- ship to man, becomes the tangible force of mankind in a Promethean challenge to destiny. We can only surmise the weight to be placed upon us because of our university experiences. but we grow, exchanging strength for strength. in preparation. Since the conception of the l,yt't llltL students have been the agitators, the progressive element: under oppression they have ilttllgltl lar freedonl: with the trials of the enlightened mind they hare resisted tyratnties of every sort and in every age. Ont' great- est danger lies in emntnnnality. Like the orient pearl of the poets. the value ol' a llltiYt'l'hllt' is partly its rarity. ll is sustain:-ml lay the quality ol' the ltnmtletlge which can he attained in no other way lay so many seekers. A center of broad awareness as of letters, no longer an ivory lower uncmntccted with contetnporary problems, the ttnirersity has lnecomc almost a solitary Venture for llllIlt'l'wlLllItllllg in the tnidst of a chaotic civilization. It is the extension of the venture which we undertake.

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FOREWORD WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY? HE QUESTION has been answered emotionally, humorously, nostalgically, bitterly, critically, by Abelard, Mencken, Charlemagne, Emerson, Jones, each in his own memorable way. lt has summoned up sweater-clad couples on a green quadrangle, cool corridors with lettered plaques, not so cool class rooms with chalk marks on the professoris bottomside, dances and hidden bottles, the Waving pennons of a crowd, libraries and whispered voices, these are im- ages evoked by balding alumni as beacons of lost youth. But they are sensuous impressionsg a human congress is more than stone. It seems, in a day when each man must take upon himself the salvation of the race fperhaps it has always been this wayj, that a more weighty question must precede the title: what is education? If we accept the Greek ideal, it is a unity of intellectual and physical growth, in which man's being is no longer dichotomized. It follows that education is the process by which man is stimulated to investigate his pow- ers and by doing so, to increase them. The university, a miniature community contain- ing its own conflicts, the challenge of other intellects, the grateful eagerness of studies, the discipline of a life at once physically confined and spiritually in- finite, is an institution with potential for the task of reconciling the human spirit with natural forces. Few of us have the mental discipline to absorb and use the bodies of knowledge we encounter, but within the structure of a university we are given the oppor- tunity to try to do so. Within a university, bibliphiles, artists, logicians gather to create an intellectual cli- mate in which we encounter forces that produce the lille Athletics are important. The community participates in university functions.

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IN MEMORIAM DR. 1 1DOLF K RL BERNARD Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures PRIOR TO coming to the University in 1957, Dr. Bernard received his B.S. 119401, and his lV1.A. 119419 from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. H9491 from the University of Minnesota. We quote from a statement by Dr. William Crain, chair- man of the languages department: The University was fortunate in having in Dr. Bernard a man for whom German was a native language, and a man who, through years of study and teaching in this Country, was well acquainted with the American student. Dr. Bernard was a brilliant man and a scholar whose thirst for knowledge never ceased. The memory of his gentle manner and his constant desire to fulfill the responsibilities of his profession will keep him forever alive in the hearts of those who were privileged to have known him.