Earlham College - Sargasso Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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ThaT spiriT Torms our background. Your way is noT my way, buT our goal is The same. And I shall Try To sTudy your road To improve my own. ThaT is why This school educaTes Tor liTe. IT also inTorms Tor deaTh. We have noT wiThdrawn on This campus To live in a haven oT Tolerance. We do noT escape The exTernal currenTs and conTusion. BUT here we can learn, and waTch Those who do The living. IT liTe is an advenTure, we shall Tace iT wiTh courage and wisdom. We shall leave sTrengThened when iT is our Turn. Our world Today is much like a building in ruins. When iT was made, They used deTecTive raw-maTerials. Somewhere along The line, one oT The TenanTs proceeded To Tix up his Tloor a liTTle beTTer, and made The whole sTrucTure come down. The a+her TenanTs sued him To The Tull exTenT oT The war, and now They are all wiThouT a rooT above Their heads.

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u t I Qui l-HS, once more, is Earlham's TirsT war yearbook , Seniors in I943, we made iT Tor ourselves and Tor The school. The book is noT a social calendar any longer, buT an aTTempT To discuss by word and picTure This year now becoming a memory. During These lasT Twelve monThs, Earlham has known a reason- able share oT normal campus liTe. AmidsT pressure, Tarewells and Tun, we wiTnessed our own, slow TransTormaTion: noT iusT The re- acTion To ouTside Torces beyond our conTrol, buT The growTh oT a new consciousness, The coming-of-Torce oT an ideal, The ulTimaTe crysTallizaTion oT Earlham's philosophy and underlying spiriT. We aT Earlham This year have been Touched by someThing greaTer Than ourselves: as a group, we have sTood up Tor an idea: because conscience counTed more Than maTerial, we have endan- gered our liTe as a insTiTuTion and reTused To Train men in uniTorm. Curs was The unproTiTable righT To diTTer, To serve wiThouT Tollow- ing The crowd in order To aTTirm ThaT our principles were deep and sTormprooT. Men who hang on crosses do noT have To say much .... We may be on The righT way. We are noT marTyrs yeT. Nor were we unanimous in our sTand. Many could noT reconcile Themselves To The decision. BUT Earlham has become such ThaT There were Tew indeed who TelT +ha+ iT was noT The decision oT The True Earlham. Few who doubTed or Tailed To admire The sinceriTy oT The men and women who seTTled The issue. ThaT, in essence, is The spiriT of Earlham. i dC.f871d til rh e d ea rh your right to say iff' -X 'oltizire

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We come al a very opporlune lime. We have sfudied lheir pasl, also known as The rnislrakes lhey made. We are old enough +o be lis- lened To. We have brains and energy. Moreover, we are lhe ones who are going lo live longesl in The new building. I+ is only lair 'rhal il be adapled To our needs. Bur our weakness is Thaf we do no+ know whaf kind of a building we wanl. We know well rhal we do nol wanl anolher collapsible edifice, a slage sei wifh only a 'Front We in Jrurn do nol wanf lo send 'rhe nexl