College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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WE WPCINT WITH PRIDE We will remember you always as our instruc- tors and advisors, but, more than that, we will remember you as our friends. You teach us historical facts. lab techniques, names, and dates, but you also show us by example that intangible thing we call the Wooster spirit. Always ready for a smile, never too busy to give outside help and advice, our profs are our staunch friends. We will remember you in your colorful gowns as you march down the aisle on special chapel occasions. When we see you then we are reminded of the years you have spent in study and of the countless honors you have received. We are grateful for the privilege of knowing you and of studying as your pupils. We call you Mose, Freddy, Hutch, Iohnny, Archie, or Raclcy, because we think of you as pals. Here's to you-our faculty. ' ,

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AND THE PRESIDENT SAYS... Out of some memories of my own I first of all want to thank the editor of the Index and the Index staff for the preparation of this book. The work that goes into such a venture can hardly be estimated by anyone who has not had sorne experience in preparing a college annual. I feel sure I speak for the whole col- lege in voicing this appreciation. The Scotch lad and lassie who wander through these pages have this year seen a busy and crowded campus. Especially during the first term, they watched a very fine demonstration of good humor, cooperation, and plain Spartan fortitude as many of our students adjusted themselves to unfinished housing and the other rigors of a transition year. We shall not soon forget the spirit shown by so many men and women. The Index is an almost startling record of the varied activities that make up an American college. These activities often give pain to those who fear that the sideshows have consumed the main circus. When properly regulated by the individual, however, these extra-curricular pursuits have a great educational value of their own and are a proper part of any student's development. The new program at Wooster frankly places studies at the center of the campus and strives to secure on the part of each student a genuine intel- lectual experience that comes to some head in a major field of learning. But this very effort would be poor, indeed, were it not accompanied by the wider human experience afforded by the best extra-curricular opportunity. Thus, the Index is an excellent reminder of what ought to be the total harmony tit need not be the total confusionl of college life. I do not know to what class the Scotch lad and lassie belong-whether they are the 'wee, sleekit, coW'rin, tirn'rous beasties' that are supposed to be-and rarely aregfreshmen, or whether they stand near to graduation. Before long, at any rate, they shall walk straight off these pages into a world beyond college and see the campus in perspective. The Index will then give them many happy hours, not merely because it is a record of the past but because it is, in itself, a sketch that pre- figures those permanent interests of the human spirit that last through life. 'Nae man can tether time or tide, but a college can give to all of us a kind of ageless possession for our minds and for our hearts. I-Ioward Lowry