Auburn University - Glomerata Yearbook (Auburn, AL)

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AND BLUE MONDAY MORNINGS OLD FACES GONE AND NEW FACES APPEARING TO REPLACE THEM; ALL THESE THINGS ARE THE STANDARD OF LIFE AT AUBURN FROM YEAR TO YEAR . . . THERE ARE ALWAYS PARTIES TO DRESS UP FOR AND FOOTBALL TEAMS TO CHEER FOR -ORGANIZATIONS STILL HOLD THEIR INITIATIONS AND CLASSES TURN OUT FOR ELECTIONS FRESHMEN STILL SHINE SHOES AND SENIORS STILL TRY TO ACT AS THOUGH THEY WERE ALWAYS ABOVE SUCH TASKS... ALL THESE OUTWARD THINGS HAVE BECOME THE INHERIT-ANCE OF THE AUBURN STUDENT. THEY ARE AS MUCH A PART OF AUBURN AS THE BUILDINGS AND THE CAMPUS. THE CHANGE AT AUBURN WAS NOT IN THE MAKE-UP OF THESE THINGS; IT WAS NOT SO MUCH IN THE DEPARTURE OF ANY OLD CUSTOMS OR TRADITIONS WHAT WAS NEW AT AUBURN WAS THE CHANGE IN TEMPO, THE AWAKENING . AND THE REALIZATION THAT THE CAMPUS WAS NOT THE ISOLATED PLACE IT WAS ONCE IMAGINED ... FOR THE FIRST v TIME IN THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO MADE UP THE SEVENTIETH STUDENT BODY THE COLLEGE HAD BECOME MERELY A MEANS OF PREPARATION AND HAD LOST ITS MEANING AS AN END IN ITSELF... AUBURN STUDENTS, AFTER THE FIRST FEW MONTHS OF FALSE IMPRESSIONS. AWOKE TO THE FACT THAT ALL OF US MUST SOON TAKE OUR PLACES IN ANOTHER SETTING SOONER THAN MOST OF US HAD EVER DREAMED THE CHANGING TEMPO WAS EVIDENCED IN NEARLY EVERYTHING WE ENCOUNTERED WHEN WE CAME BACK TO SCHOOL TO START THE PAST YEAR . . . THERE WERE STILL DANCES AND DRILLS, YES. BUT THE DANCES WERE FEWER AND DRILLS CAME MUCH 'o MORE OFTEN THERE WERE STILL THE WEEKS AND WEEK-ENDS, TRUE. BUT THE WEEKS LASTED LONGER AND THE y WEEK-ENDS WERE SPENT IN TOWN -THE CLASSES AND LABS 7 WERE ALL HELD AGAIN. BUT WE ATTENDED THEM TWICE AS OR. PETRIE'S TEAM THE FIRST GYMNASIUM AN EARLY ENGINEERING GROUP LIBRARY WHEN FIRST COMPLETED

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OLD MAIN 6UIL0ING LANGOON HALL UBURN—A YEAR AT AUBURN A YEAR THAT HELD SO MANY THINGS THAT ONLY THIS PAST YEAR COULD ... A YEAR THAT SAW OUR ALMA MATER PASS ITS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY WITH ITS SEVENTIETH STUDENT BODY AND ITS SEVENTIETH GRADUATING CLASS ... A YEAR THAT COULD BE CALLED BY MANY NAMES—A YEAR THAT WAS SUCCESSFUL FOR MANY. DISAPPOINTING FOR SOME. BEWILDERING MORE OFTEN THAN COMFORTING-A YEAR THAT WE SHALL NOT ATTEMPT TO EVALUATE. BUT ONE THAT MUST AT THE VERY LEAST BE ACKNOWLEDGED AS DIFFERENT ... IT IS TRUE THAT AS EACH YEAR PASSES AND EACH STUDENT BODY LIVES THROUGH THOSE DAYS THAT ARE THEIR’S ON OUR CAMPUS. EACH YEAR SEEMS DIFFERENT. EACH YEAR SEEMS UNIQUE AND UNFORGETABLE . . . BUT. ON A FRIENDLY. INFORMAL CAMPUS EACH YEAR FOLLOWS MUCH THE SAME LEISURELY COURSE AS THE ONES BEFORE ... CLASSES AND LABS DANCES AND DRILLS- WEEKS OF WORK AND WEEK-ENDS OF PLAY ROSY SATURDAY AFTERNOONS

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OFTEN AS BEFORE . . . AND. TO ALL THIS THERE WAS ADDED THE ARRAY OF NEW THINGS THAT HAD NEVER BEFORE BEEN APART OF AUBURN... THE VERY OPENING DATE OF SCHOOL WAS NEW THIS YEAR. SO WERE THE CURRICULA WE REGISTERED FOR . . . NEW GRADING SCALES NEW SOCIAL CALENDARS- NEW PHYSICAL TRAINING PROGRAMS -NEW EMPHASIS ON MILITARY NEW. NEW. NEW, UNTIL THAT WORD SEEMED TO PREFACE EVERYTHING WE FACED BECAUSE THE COLLEGE WAS ANSWERING A DEMAND FOR SPEED ... AND THROUGH THE SHORTENED YEAR THERE WERE SPECIAL DAYS THAT WILL BE REMEMBERED. DAYS THAT MARKED A SPECIAL YEAR AND SET IT APART FROM THE OTHERS. SOME WERE DAYS OF CELEBRATION. BUT MOST WERE DAYS THAT SOBERED US AND GAVE MEANING TO THE REST OF YEAR AS EACH DAY PASSED WE REALIZED MORE COMPLETELY WHAT WE WOULD SOON BE LOSING AND WE WERE MORE DETERMINED TO ENJOY WHAT TIME WAS LEFT AT AUBURN . . . RECALL THOSE DAYS AND YOU HAVE MUCH OF THE PATTERN OF THE YEAR THE DAY COLLEGE OPENED IN JUNE—THE DAY CONGRESS VOTED TO DRAFT THE EIGHTEEN AND NINETEEN YEAR OLDS THE DAY WE REGISTERED FOR SELECTIVE SERVICE THE DAY WE SIGNED OUR APPLICATIONS FOR COMMISSIONS—THE DAY OF THE GEORGIA GAME-THE DAY THE RESERVE PROGRAMS WERE CLOSED HOMECOMING AND THE DAY WE WERE ALL ASSEMBLED IN THE STADIUM TO HEAR THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT R.O.T.C. AND ENLISTED RESERVE WERE TO BE CALLED TO ACTIVE DUTY . . . ALL THOSE DAYS AND ALL THE ACTIVITIES THAT INTERVENED WENT INTO ANOTHER YEAR AT AUBURN. AND ALL THE SPIRIT THAT IS ALWAYS AUBURN AND THE NEW SPIRIT THAT CAME OF UNCERTAINTY ALL THAT IS WHAT IS MEANT BY '’A YEAR AT AUBURN . . .