Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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curricular activity took place, shortly followed by the girl's rush to sign in. When returning our dates to Wheaton the matter was a little more complicated, and the time problem once more depended on the speed of your automobile and the graciousness of constables, Attleboro police, or State Highway patrol. Those who drove Austin Healey's, M. G.'s or Porsches were especially for- tunate, and those who thought their standard American makes were as fast as the sport cars were sometimes not fortunate at all. It's all rela- tivel This last expression was one of the most . et - i.l...'?.l.i'l.'!: u . . L . o . - . . b . - . - - . d L . . . i R L L g important I ever learned, for on numerous occa- sions since, it has acquitted me the victor on any philosophical discussion. Oh, the merits of edu- cation. There seem to be a lot of things that happened in those four years that the camera missed. Then I guess the camera of our mind is always a better product than Eastman Kodak's finest. It sees more and can feel what it sees. Also it can make associ- ations between objects. I guess that education is a matter of associations. There are pictures of the faculty of the university. There are pictures of l. '......'.. ..'. - k4 - . e i - - - t L . . hd E L . i 0 - L

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i, ;' ; i end before. It was a highly competitive business to get those girls before the camera for a picture. Some of them have been caught or inversely have caught us and may become our wives; so when 1 lasting relationships I don't think T ex- aggerate. This brings to mind the even more valuable experience we gained racing with the clock and accepting the responsibilities of taking care of women. The deadline at the Broke was twelve- thirty during the week, and one o'clock and one-thirty on Friday and Saturday nights respec- tively, if I remember correctly. Now by fast car it was four and one-half minutes from Bovies taking red-lighted stop signs into account, and nine minutes and twenty seconds from the T- Bone excluding them, which is dangerous. From downtown Providence you pays your money and takes your choice. The time element was impos- sible to figure out due to Rhode Island drivers, suicide , and many blue suited fellows in souped up Chevrolets who didn't always see it our way. A brisk walk from the quadrangle to An- drews porch with not too many detours took about ten minutes. All converging couples merged at a few seconds to deadline, if lucky, on the porch where a short period of our favorite extra- el B

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the students, but where are shots showing the give and take that went on between them. There seem to be no pictures of the transfer of ideas that passed in classes, in activities, and on the campus as a whole. You can't picture that. But isn't that the most important thing about college? The Workman, George, Van Nostrand or Ducasse that gave his lectures spoke to us in associations of experiences or ideas, and we slaved away at the end of the semester till three packs of cigarettes and many kilowatt hours later we turned in a term paper with our own two bits in it. Others were able to learn from Prof. Adams that two bits and two bits are four bits and then went on to abstract mathematics. Of course we wanted our i pEvser o two bits to add up to a C or higher, but then many of the professors didn't add the same way we did. It's all a matter of associations. You asso- ciate gut with C and no work, you link grind with much work, and so on. Finally it came to the point where you associated yourself with the character in a book, a formula, or history and actually learned something. Even more important, you associated yourself with Man, and even some- times with won The result was idealism and marriage. There is no end to where this kind of thought will lead one. Usually in circles, I think, so let's not chase the academic tail. But wait, this all brings to mind the rumors circuit, or the campus grapevine, which was the biggest