Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

Page 10 text:

Listen, we are inviting you. Look on these pages, on pictures printed in the past, recorded in the ever more distant past, some even faded with age. In some places you see only white where the old images have gone completely— and yet haven ' t they left the ghost of a shape, a sjjace to be filled and incorporated? Now feel, in your right hand, the weight of what is to come, of what you will soon be seeing and accounting for. We dedicate this, our chapter in the Denison history book, to Dr. A. Blair Knapp on his 10th anniversary as our president. Can we say anything comprehensive about this man who was here before we came, who will continue here after we leave? About his image there is the character of a current event into which can be read a past and a future. He is with our trustees and benefactors, who know the chapters of the history book more completely than we ever can. He is with us who are— well— the issues of the moment. And he is with future which we see appearing even now— the skeleton of a new building, the rumored coming of still newer, abler minds. Tennyson rightly said that we are a part of all that we have met. For most of us, our stay at Denison is now and will be perhaps the most important meeting of our lives. Here in the shadows of ivy-covered buildings and tall straight trees we have nurtured friendships that will endure for the remainder of our lives. We, as other generations before us, have trudged afoot up the drag on wintry days, walked with a liglit step down the many paths in brisk aulumn, or strolled leisurely past Swasey chapel, basking in the warm sunshine of late spring. Occasionally we have slopped to consider and contemplate the beauty and serenity that surrounds us, a gift from llu)se of the past to us of the present and to those who will follow our trails through Deinson.