Hamline University - Liner Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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PROLOGUE . . . The summons to recall and recount what it means to be a college student always elicits a multifarious response from the group challenged by the proposal. For some, university life represents the perfect opportunity for the singular to become a part of the collective - for the individual to make eiofective and constructive use of his talents and interests within the group setting, to devote his time and his energies to organiza- tional activity and specialized projects. For others, college means the chance to get away from home and-in dorm, fraternity, or society-make new friends and set new patterns, enjoy the freedom of being alone, learn to accept responsibility to the residence family as a whole, and have fun and fellowship and good times together. For certain persons, college is culture - the theatre, speech, art, and music - and the chance to enrich one's knowledge and talentsg the opportunity to develop mature concepts of ap- preciation, the joys and inspirations, the despair and sorrow that such appreciation can bring. Yet others remember college as a place of athletic activity Q where the rules of good sports- manship take on added meaning, where pent emotions and energies are given sudden release, and where school loyalty reaches dazzling heights. Some recall the social aspects of life as a college student - and find richest meaning in the hundreds of experiences shared with others at dances, parties, picnics and pow-wowsg in hazing, pranks, and crazy stunts, in contests and at Carnivals, in a mul- tiplicity of campus life situations. There are those, finally, who believe that a college's fullest meaning lies, above all, in the academic - the challenge to become better informed on both the general and the specific, the opportunity to construct high goals and envisage far hori- zons, the chance to fully develop the intellect and use the high- est powers of reason at onels command. It is earnestly hoped that each of the formentioned responses Hnds symbolic representation within these pages, and that the 1961 Liner is an accurate, informative, interesting, and mean- ingful account of a year in the life of a particular and very special school--Hamline University. Officialdom, Organizations and Upportunity. . . On page twenty . . . This year at Hamline there was organ- ization in abundance. And with the devel- opment of several of these just this year, there was such a plethora as to make even Wfilliam Whyte stare in disbelief. There was a niche somewhere for everyone, in HUL or SPAN, HUMS or WUS.

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DEDICATIO 17 Q' Miss Barbara Mertz To the students and faculty of Hamline University, the de- votion of Nfiss Barbara Mertz to her work and to the school which she serves has been a constant inspiration and challenge. In her many duties - counselling, teaching, advising, super- vising - she has emanated a spirit of warmth and helpfulness which spnbolize the highest ideals of life itself g and the words of counsel which she has contributed have been governed by an intelligence and a foresight which has made them especially meaningful. She has been a friend and aide in all that we have sought to do: she has been a ready counsellor, willing to listen and un- derstand: and she has performed her responsibilities judiciously in everv respcct. ln each of her undertakings, she has contin- uallv refiectcd the best characteristics of Hamline University. No one of us will ever forget the contacts we have had with her in class, in activities of the school, and in personal situations. She has helped us to understand. appreciate. and more effec- tivelv use. the talents which we already possess: and she has thus enabled us to realize ourselves more fullv. better respect others. and make intelligent contributions to the world of which we are so small a part, It is therefore with appreciation and thanks that we dedicate the l96l Linn' to Miss Barbara Bfcrtz.

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On page forty-Iwo , . . Apollo and Dionysus would have felt at home at Hamline this year. Unlike the current trend nationally, our Greek system seems to grow and thrive more each year. Togas and grapes, torches and olive branches - all the trappings were there as we performed the ancient Grecian rites, making our rooms and houses into slightly too insular city-states. . . .and a Way of Life Revisited and Recaptured 5 5 ywvfqfwd ' 'W R On page fffy-.tix '.,, Coedueational living on a small scale was the innovation at Drew this year. and alter two semesters. nearly all agreed that it was highly successful. XX'hile unable to match some of the attractions of Drew. the lira- ternity houses presentetl other advantages ancl were iilletl throughout the year. as were Sorin Hall and Kianor llouse.