Carleton College - Algol Yearbook (Northfield, MN)

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Graduation from Carleton is accompanied with many mixed emotions and at that time only a few graduates can honestly say that they would enioy returning for another four years of college life. The long hours of study, the limited freedom and the constant academic pressure stand out clearly in the minds of those still in or recently graduated from Carleton. The student's first picture of his college is blurred by hazy images of the hard work and sacrifice with which he pays his daily homage to the almighty grade-poin-t, while the fu- ture, spangled with unlimited freedom and vast opportunity, glows brightly from beyond the campus. As time passes, however, that strange psychological chem- istry begins to function which makes the past seem much brighter than the future, it is at this time that the mosaic of college life comes into focus. ln retrospect the bitter moments of despair and frustration become less bitter, and the leaden days, which seemed to the student to stretch on- endlessly, are transmuted into a few golden hours to be savored in moments of recollection. Fall at Carleton becomes a time for football games, multi- colored trees and iunior carnival rather than term papers, hour exams and late nights in the library. In the winter, two days at Lutsen will be remembered far lon-ger than two bleary-eyed weeks spent studying for semester exams. While spring will always be arb season and the trauma which was Comps will seem far less important than that party when they were over. The Academic aspect of Carleton will also be changed in its perspective by the passing of time. The many requirements, English, history, art, philosophy, biology and others, concomitants of a liberal arts education, which at times, seem superfluous to the student, will be seen in a new light, as the basis for broader understanding and for the pleasant and profitable use of many leisure hours. lt is to preserve and foster these memories that we print the ALGOL, to record the symbols of a period in our lives which only time and experience can teach us to fully appre- ciate.

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