Chatham College - Cornerstone Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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And what looked like a wall turns out to be a world With measurements of its own . . . W. H. Auden INTRODUCTION That wall which from a distance appears to be insignificant can assume grandiose proportions when approached. It becomes an obstacle to be sur- mounted, a blockade to be circumvented, but an attacker has the assurance that the wall, however high and wide, must be finite. Its bricks, its stones, its mortar can be methodically removed, and when they crumble, the world revealed is new, is fresh, is virgin land. Life is an eternal series of the walls of hate . . . of love ... of intellectual striving ... of knowledge- able pursuit. When first approached, there is no limit to their height and their breadth. However, when scrutinized and methodically attacked, these abstract walls assume dimensions, are limited, and fall. With their fall, worlds are opened and widened, bridges constructed, streams forded, and dams built. A student can often see the constructor moving ahead of her, throwing up walls more quickly than she can attack them, closing doors in her face, leaving bricks in her path. Yet it is her responsibility, her joy, to welcome the walls and tear them down, for It Is with their destruction that she strengthens, with their removal that she opens worlds, and with the view of these worlds that she grows.

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1963 CORNERSTONE CNATAM COLLEGE PIIISBURGH, PENNSyLVAKIA

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