Beloit College - Codex Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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The Assuuiated Students of Beloit EDHEQE Beluit, Wisconsin ' THE 1945 BULB EditDIwEABUL JEAN MATHEB Business ManagerwJEANNE DRE ! x

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DEDICATION BELOIT College has just weathered the flrst one hundred years of her existence more success fully that it was dreamed she could. In those years she has awarded diplomas to 3971 graduates and has many more listed on her alumni rolls$about 7900 in all. These, plus the 1300 deceased alumni, are representative men and women who have gone forth from her halls to spread her fame abroad for every generation since its founding. It is to these, the loyal alumni; that we wish to dedicate the 1946 GOLD. In 1847 the first students entered Beloit College and until 1849 the total number in the student. body was five. That first graduation Class of three men in 1851, however; gave her the hrst alumni group, and it has been largely through the efforts of the alumni that she has been so success lul. Now Beloit College has the Children of its hrst students and has reached its peak enrollment in this year with 635 students, It is the earnest wish of all who love her that she will weather the storms of the next one hundred years as well as she has done the past, and it is only through the faithful support of her alumni that she will do so. Time magazine has aptly summed 'up Beloit Collegeas influence when they wrote in the article on her Centennial Celebration: ScIts collegiate good living? as well as its scholastic oHerings, are what make Beloit graduates send their children to Beloit as automatically as a Saltonstall goes to Harvarle9 May that continue to hold truel An .1 V-rwwmo-.u 7.....rn---.nu.... .