Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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foreword Here is a book, your 1956 Augsburgian, present- ing a year of living on a college campus. Turn the pages. Somewhere among these many faces is your face. Or is it? We tried, you know, to catch you with the camera. Look carefully. Campus Life — Organizations — Athletics. Surely you arc there. For in a college com- munity no one lives in isolation. Members of a group, lives daily touching other lives, we must admit when a year ends that we have become a part of all that we have met.” One among many. Yes, each of us is that. But each stands also alone. There we arc, row after row of individuals, with a name, an address, a classifica- tion, a field of study. All is stated in pictures and words that those who wish may read and know. But pictures and words cannot really present a year of living on a college campus. The progress of thought, the understanding of an idea, the mystery of a creative act, the new insight into truth — activi- ties like these, lying at the center of college life, we have not captured. Nor can you find between the covers of this book a visible record of our best and worst moments — the joy of achievement and the recognition of failure, the knowledge of strength and the act of weakness, the vision of a high calling and the surrender to the lower aim. Yet these are the realities of life on a college campus, life of the indi- vidual and therefore the life of the group. Here is the book. If it can hold for you not only a record of the lesser activities but a reminder of the greater, then it will give you the year 1956 to be an archway through which you step with confidence into the yet untravcled world of mind and spirit, the world of the forever fading margins.

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