Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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4 J a 5. 5 ,l S- R? A ' DEN KMANN MEMCRIAL LIBRARY Its heavy bronze doors prove that more than an easy push is needed to get an Augie edu' cation! Here we pursue outside reading and term paper writing from 8 A. M. to 9 P. M., crowd the post office three times a day, pay bills, hear the choir practice and meet our dates. WALLBERG HALL OF SCIENCE ..... No longer do we have to peer ast sm k t k d t p o es ac s an sand dunes to see this interesting place where, it seems the laboratory 1' ht ig s are on all night. It houses the nationally lmown geology department and the Augustana Research Foundation and also lately a good part of the English department. Schools getting crowded. .Nv '

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Vdemz Wwe Pawn Ideas have power. How odd it is that the power of an idea is being demonstrated at the moment by Russian materialists who deny that ideas do any more than ref flect the economic situation. In this I Hnd a challenge for an Augustana which is looking to a future of splendid strength, magnificent new buildings and confident action. Will We not do well to ask wherein true power lies? Many years ago a wise man said that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. But may not more knowledge be more dangerous still? The modern college may be threatened by the peril of great learning. The student manipulates ideas as a child plays with its toys. We tend to forget that truth is soulfimpelling. As a sen' sualist may treat love as a thing, a plaything rather than a relation between persons, so too in our cult of truth for truth's sake we may wrongly treat ideas as things rather than as personal responses to reality. That ideas call for moral judgment and moral stamina has been part of the traditional faith of our college. Its art, science, and religion have not been merely impressionistic, casual, contemplative. Therefore in a great period of transition and swift growth I would write this watchword, that we must not mistake our task for analytical fermentation but instead for spiritual implementation. Ideas, yes even wrong ideas, have power. Then how tragic it would be if we were to find truth, the right ideas, and then to imprison them in ivory towers. Truth is a moral responsibility, and college should be a school for life. GEORGE B. ARBAUGH

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MUSIC BUILDING ..... Soon to be replaced by the Fine Arts ' building on campus building, this, the oldest ' tains its balance in spite of fall firmly main rains and spring thaws. THE GYMNASIUM . . . Basketball games, swimming meets, ora' torio concerts, plays, Homecoming gather' h sical ed classes, allfschool parties What more ings, p y . -the gym leads a busy life. could we say? gk nf .-wr I -rabid? if m if 1 QJSS'-J ,-,M lrgr 25 V541 llislffi if ft? fs ' if W 5 is