Elon University - Phi Psi Cli Yearbook (Elon, NC)

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I am able to examine my beliefs in a new light. The old limitations of home and geographical area are left in the past with childhood. A new freedom of personal opinion is thrust upon me. To some, this free- dom is bewildering; to others, it is stabilizing. I have found it .stabiliz- ing, in that all that I have ever done or thought is progressing toward a culmination which is the goal of the educated man. Far m Itself, I believe in people — and in their given right to enjoy the freedoms we so cherish. . . . — Julien Brvan The only thing a person ever really owns is his mind. That is one of the first lessons a liberal arts college student learns. And so he realizes he must cultivate it.

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I have never allowed fellowship with those who are my friends and my enemies to be pushed completely aside by con- cern with formal educa- tion. To me, my most enriching moments are those which I have spent with my fellow beings. It is in those moments that I am most able to construct my own phil- osophy of life. Here at Elon, I have contact with people from every type of environment. Some of those people agree with me in my own beliefs; others do not. I learn from all of them.

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He takes up the book. At his desk, head bent against hand in the in- tensity of the Hghted room, he takes up the challenge. He finds educa- tion a gateway to the future, a pass- key into a realm in which he has many obligations. He finds the strength to support his opinions. He blends together his own mind with the knowledge and experience that men before him have gathered and recorded. And now he stirs it gently in the lighted room. Life begins to acquire a balance. It is a slow bal- ance, but it remains steady and con- stant in the four-year flood of time. It is unnoticeable even to him, to his suddenly crowded bi-ain. But he is being educated. .jiSBk.;aii?rf» ((r??•. H ■. -?5S-WS« - ' • -« He must learn to think critically and logically. His entire life at college is an effort to prepare his mind for another time when it must cope with real-life problems in a world that demands the very best of his talents.