Baylor University - Round Up Yearbook (Waco, TX)

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A university does not consist merely of lands, libraries, and laboratories. The best part of a university is invisible. More important than briclc and mortar is the spirit of an institution. No university can be great, whatever may be its assets, whatever may be its scholastic achievements, that does not develop within its own life a pure, radiant, institu- tional soul. lt is the spirit that giveth life: the flesh profiteth nothing. Baylor University, malcing lives through the medium of all-round education, developing body, mind, and spirit, while contending forthe highest scholarship, shifts the emphasis from curriculum to character, from mechanics to dynamics, from property to personality, from money to men, men not only with minds trained, but with hearts inspired and destinies determined. PAT M. NEFF, President of Baylor University. -' .T::: -...Lf 1 - ' zf ' - W sf , , Y : 1-.-.f.:1 1.1.11 :.+--f...-..f if --:fr : -11' mam., ff.:1f,- as 7 -f-H v-11-1,15 . TS: nv., df-'.1'T,lL , Q f KFQL- fm, ' .' -. ,lf

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When Numlei observed how Kreimjur sorrowed in his loneliness, she pleaded with Vimruk to give him fl mate, and her pleadings were so sweet that Kreimjur imitated them, and music was born. Vimruk heeded Numlei, and he determined to make woman the loveliest of all creation. He made her cheeks softer and more delicate than the lily and the lotus blossom, her lips more tender than the night breeze, and her eyes unfathomable as the reflect- tions of the stars in the deep springs in Numlei's bosom. Then Vimruk placed the first woman in a beautiful garden of delight, and he called her name Orianne, because she was to live for love. It was in the garden that Kreimjur, hunting for wild game the next day, discovered Orianne, and he loved her, for she was fair of face and form. And it came to pass that Orianne delivered two sons, and the one, Veklus, became a keeper of the herds, and the other, Roskav, became a keeper of the fields. Now Veklus and Roskav likewise took wives unto themselves, though the clay tablets disclose notfrom whence came the maidens. Kreimjur counselted his sons in matters of how to live and how to love, because he himself was sagacious and e.vperienced, having traveled the land so far westward that he had almost lost sight of the tall tree in the midst of their garden home, and he had so ruled Orianne that she was still content to remain behind while he roamed forth in search of game. And Kreimjur, in all his sapiency, taught his sons how the sun swung around the earth and the stars with tiny bits of dust reflecting lightfrom the sun, which was the only body emanating light of its own manufacture. With auspicious intonations the father described the region. beyond the mountains, which he had never seen, but which he felt certain was as he pictured it. The sons imbibed the perspicacity fy' the old man. through the years and marveled at his wisdom. They doubted not that the earth was flat, for so it appearedq all matter was made of earth, else why did all things 607716 from it? And it came to pass that as the youths reached the threshold of manhood, the vicinity of the garden became heavily peopled, and so it was that Kreimjur taught his sons brotherly love and that they should do unto others as they would be done by. But one day when Veklus and Roskav saw their father slay a fellow man for trespassing on his property, they decided there were exceptions to rules, and they promptly killed all men who trespassed on their land. When they discovered they could gain property thereby, they sometimes murdered men who had wronged them not. And Kreimjur grieved, because his sons had departedfrom the righteous ways of their father. Now, after many years,

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M.- THE DEANS SPEAK: Study not only that ye may know much, but that ye may become much -this is my message to the students of Baylor in this year of significant world events. Although lcnowledge is essential, it by itself is not sufficient. It is fhe right assimilation of knowledge that creates character-and char- acter must be increasingly a possession of those who are products of our educational system. This is especially true of you who are to be college graduates. The changing and uncertain temper of the peoples of the world malces it doubly imperative that each prepare himself to remain cool-headed in a time of crisis by becoming solid and well- grounded in his thinking before that crisis occurs. By what we do when suddenly plunged into a new and different situation we reveal what we have become--what we really are-much more clearly than by our actions when all goes well. E. N. JONES I Baylor Students-Past, Present, and to Come: Greetings and good wishes! May you malce for yourselves a real place in the Good Old Baylor Line, malcing of the line something more than a song, something vital, enduring, beautiful, binding our hearts together and all of us to our Alma Mater. LILY M. RUSSELL