Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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Take this year for what it ' s worth

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IMot only education is heard here today Every year the world seems to get older faster. And the ivory towers get shorter and need whitewash more often. Not many years ago, the univer- sity was a quiet place where the student could go and concentrate on getting an education. It was a place where the world ' s problems had to wipe their feet before coming In. No more. Now the measured, succinct argument of the philosopher must struggle to be heard against the cries of the oppressed, the moans of the human being as student, the clashing music of a confused age. For these, too, echo In the hallways of learning. The student can no longer concentrate on getting an educa- tion. He has the education thrust upon him, by headlines, by governmental letters, by the different person next to him. He may suffer more than yesterday ' s student. But true knowledge, like each human being. Is born In pain. 11