Drury University - Souwester Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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To Build a College Ideas, ethics and principles are the invisible pillars of a college. Around these are built the material aspects. The action in the world around us is far from static, and to educate people to adapt to this ever- changing world a college must keep pace with it. New ideas call forth a need for new facilities to test and use them. New buildings and im- proved facilities are aimed at bringing the educational experience of the student closer to reality. Colleges have widened their scope to include a picture of future needs. Conditions change. But the planning process will never cease. A college can never hope to propose an all inclusive blueprint of all future objectives and actions. Such a scheme falls into the realm of the ridiculous. The times are challenging colleges to meet their demands. Myriads of scientific strides and sociological and psychological advancements have been made. As the realm of ideas changes, so must concrete reality change. Many colleges have accepted this challenge. They refuse to stand still and let the rest of the world go by. Stagnancy is the first step down on the ladder of deterioration. A college must not let her- self become stagnant. All groups with an interest in a college should submit ideas, sug- gestions and criticisms. For planning requires wide participation if it is to realistically formulate future needs. A college now and then. Planning will bridge this gap. It will supply the necessary elements of transition. Colleges look to a future filled with revised ideas and buildings. The years are before every college to make her own. -6.

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IDEAL PL S A CTION PROGRESS in a three-fold manner symbolizes the growth of a successful college. GROXVTH of the college fa- cilities, GROXVTH of the faculty, and GROXVTH of the student body-all of these are keynotes in the progress of our DRURY COLLEGE. The dreams of the future can best be realized by the successful combination of the traditions and knowledge of the past, with a constant eye toward that which is new in the realm of ideas and material objects. In keeping with these goals of our progressive college is the 1957 SOUWVESTER, in layout and copy planned and presented to give you THE FORYVARD LOOK. -.-0 ACADEIVIIC BUILDING I-IAIGWOOD LIBRARY NEW IVICCULLAGI-I