Catawba College - Sayakini / Swastika Yearbook (Salisbury, NC)

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CLASSES

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ASTRONOMY Shout to the distant hills, I am not a physicist, nor a chemist, nor a biologist! Declare impetuously to the Natural Science professor, I hold no interest for those subjects! But never, never whisper to your best friend, I am not an astronomer. For, listen ! First, Man was created. Then Man commenced to reason : What makes the plants to grow and fall? Ah ! — Perhaps the change of season ! Step out into the open air, be it day or night. Look to the north, then to the east, to the south, and to the west. Point your eyes towards heaven and down towards hell. Now meditate on what you have seen. . . . Welcome, astronomer! You have passed the initiation. We must realize that, professionally, the pursuit of astronomy encircles not only a study of the heavenly bodies with reference to their distances, dimensions, move- ments, physical characteristics, and the laws which govern them, but also the endeavor to determine both their past and future. Therefore, though second of all the sciences in exactness, astronomy is imaginative, idealistic, invigorating, and ageless. THE SHANGRI-LA OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES.

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IN REMEMBRANCE BENEDICT EDELMANN Class of 1939 Ne ' er did we know him, Try as we would. Scholarly — Pretentious — Misunderstood. Twenty-six