Elmira College - Iris Yearbook (Elmira, NY)

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I IBYL lniaginative, sensitive persons, aeutely aware ol the romplex persons, plaees, aml things that comprise the lahrie ol lile, often hurl an outlet lor their relleetions in literary creativity. Sihyl en- courages sueh ereativity hy printing student poems, essays, and short stories. 'll he opportuniiy of seeing the prorlnet of one's thinking in actual print, uniquely possihle in a small college, in- creases the sell-eonlitlenee ol those interestetl in writing, and provides a stimulus lor further liter- ary attempts. l

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Campus news may not be world shaking, but 0ct.agon's four pages put into black and white the momentary objects of our atten- tion. The caal ot' a play, a speaker at convo- cation, a fortnn-thcoc are made more im- portant for their brief hour or day lay a place on the .front page and a hold black headline.

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The writings of 'l'homas Wolfe, expressing the ephemeral quality of moments, never to be re- eapturedg and his symbolism of time and the river, mining our lives into its eeaseless tides, drawing us from the poiguautly beautiful moments that we try vainly to preserve forever, these moments that grow dinnner aml stranger with the flow of time and the river-this was the inspiration, tl1e pur- pose behind our yearbook. We realized that our four years were neither the here-all nor end-all, when eonsidered in the large order of thingsg but merely one of the interminable bends in the life- river . . . that the fabric of life so vividly real to ue now will later be stranger than a dream, nothing more than a bitter regret of the transieriey of moments, people we onee knew, factual knowledge we have sinee forgotten . . . that the yearbook, crammed full of graphic accounts, would be the only tangible proof to us that it happened, that it was ours, that it wasn't a dream of time . . . for we cannot, even if we would, retain the unutter- able beauty of now ami here . . . a wind is rising and the rivers How . . . IRI