Berea College - Chimes Yearbook (Berea, KY)

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CLASSES The fact remains that the life of our college revolves around the curriculum . . . Out of the accumulated knowledge of man- kind certain facts which have seemed related have been placed side by side. The process of selection is long and continuing, a prodigious labor. The sciences have taken these data and made from them generalizations to state concisely the results of all the experiments ever made and those yet to be done . . . Out of the vast overflowing of the sensitive human mind have come sudden flashes of surpassing brilliance, the arts. The average mind will fail to recognize even the masterpieces of literature, music, art from too close a point of view, but the modern creative spirit correlates experiences of the past, rises through them in a flight not in- comprehensible to those who know what has gone before . . . Out of the masses of the people a few come longing to know more of the world and their heritage of culture, trying to slake a thirst which grows as it is quenched. They gather for a time in classes. Strangers today being welcomed into the fellowship of classmates, growing to be a part of the fellowship, tomorrow welcoming new strangers into the ever-changing Berea family as they themselves are leaving. . . . These are our classes: truth-seekers gathered into groups which serve to indicate roughly the progress they have made. Berea gathers them to her and speeds them on their way. classes ... 9

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THE SENIOR CLASS . . . SENIORS ... Nine- ty semester hours at least were be- hind us when we entered this class, and that amounts to well over 1600 hours spent i n class rooms and laboratories. W e have completed the study of a major field, the choice of which might seem remarkable in view of our past inten- tions. Such is the experience of mounting educa- tion. . . Two years of generaliz- ed study and another two of specialized study, and in many cases between the first of these years and this year when we graduate, more than four years have passed. Some of us entered Berea as freshmen eight years ago but spent a good many se- mester hours in work for which no credit is given at the regis- trar ' s office. Some of us started at other schools and came to Senior officers: Seated, Joan Lykins. treasurer; Shelby Duff, president; Jean Hudson, secretary; Sam Scruggs, social chairman; standing. Clay Whitaker, vice-president and student council representative; Theda Taylor, parlia- mentarian; Grant Banks, student council representative. Eerea only a short time ago. There are those of us who have already left and those who leave now and those who will leave soon. . . .We have enter- ed these halls of learning by various entrances and we leave by various exits. But now be- fore the memory of our togeth- erness fades into dimness be- yond recollection, we gather ourselves in for this final bul- wark against forgetfulness. 10 . . . senior officers