Greensboro College - Echo Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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College is a singing stride Toward the portals of maturity, A way of life deep-rooted as a pine; A candle in a quiet oisle of prayer; College is longing and fulfillment, Looking forward and looking back. It goes on forever. Not in microscopes or maps Or ledgers or violins, Or even in the tall maples that brush the sky. But in the still reaches of the hearts That having loved it, and afterward understood it. Bear its mark forever. Page Twelv

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The mind sees the world as a thing apart And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image — And this is the silence of wisdom. — Ernest Hyde College is an idea, a myth, a plan — a sudden burst of expansion — a movement from one way of life to another — a process in which the Page Fourteen total person is affected — it is no longer a time when students are called out of life to spend four years in academic sanctuary — it is a con- tinuous involvement in the life of society — it is extension and intensi- fication of our time. College is an afternoon swim, wrapped towels and cups of coffee — it goes on forever; from time passed on the eve of fire escapes and dormitory windows — it ' s three by five cards on Saturday morning, required chapel. College is lonely Saturday nights in your room, the hours spent in painful self-analy- sis over why you are such a social failure. College is a community — one of genuine friendliness and warmth and depth — one of search- ing young minds striving for cultiva- tion — maturation — on atmosphere in which we belong and find a place for service and growth. We are the parties, the shakers, the aftermath of empty bottles — we are college. We are not the cloistered intelli- 5J«iii '