Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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ONE LEARNS IN LIFE TO KEEP SILENT AND DRAW ONE’S OWN CONFUSIONS. CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER WHEN A MAN SITS WITH A PRETTY GIRL FOR AN HOUR, IT SEEMS LIKE A MINUTE. BUT LET HIM SIT ON A HOT STOVE FOR A MINUTE — AND IT’S LONGER THAN ANY HOUR. THAT’S RELATIVITY. ALBERT EINSTEIN

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YOU CAN DISCOVER MORE ABOUT A PERSON IN AN HOUR OF PLAY THAN IN A YEAR OF CONVERSATION. PLATO BE NICE TO PEOPLE ON YOUR WAY UP BECAUSE YOU MEET ’EM ON YOUR WAY DOWN. 14 JIMMY DURANTE

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Urness Tov et Augsburg, Augsburg my beloved school Do you take me for a fool? Do you think I will not remember All the cash I paid each September? To Burton Fosse and his crew To your planned increases I say screw'’! When inflation is level at five percent You say you have to raise the rent. To this we do not disagree After all. teachers don’t work for free. But when to the cost of inflation you double Then we are all in a lot of trouble. If the price rises were justified. I would not bitch, After all, I’m not trying to get rich. But when they just raise prices to react To tuition increases by Carleton and Mac. You set tuition at over three grand. Do you think money appears on demand? Where this money goes I wish I knew For the money, the services are quite few. Says the planning council. This increase will affect few. And of incoming freshmen this may be true, But as for future Alumni, someday we will all be. And then they will come making requests of me. And in those days, when they come asking for more. I will ask then to look back at the score. When I was young and in financial mess. They kept raising tuition to excess. Don’t misconstrue, it’s not the teachers I hate. Au Contraire. I think they are just great. It’s the rise in administrators I resent A ten year rise of eighty-six percent! Augsburg. Augsburg my beloved school. Do you take me for a fool? Do you think I will not remember. All the cash I paid each September? -by Gary Dahle (as printed in the Dec. 9. 1977 ECHO)