Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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,- E' -HE .lX 37-zu 15:51 iq - 5 4 V Q, 5 2 Qs' V. -an-'UN ?' P5576 '4 00 While liberal education traditionally consists in a search for eternal stan- dards of truth, beauty, and goodness, even the Platonist can hardly avoid reducing his ideals to a mere struggle for physical survival when final ex- aminations approach. Fortunate is the Hope scholar if 'research and seminar papers are out of the way, for these are weeks of all-nighters, no-doz pills, and early morning trips for life sustaining coffee.

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CHRISTMAS MUSIC Music is a part of Christmas, As the angels, above the ancient Judean plain, announced with heavenly music the birth of the Savior, so on Hope's campus the ioy that springs from peace and good will finds its finest expression in song. The classic dignity and conviction of The -Messiah, the simple ioy and firm faith of the carols and hymns, interpreted each year by the college musical organizations, renew in the hearts of the students the happy realization that man and God indeed may dwell together. twenty-three

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Q0 QXCZX Andrew Carnegie dispensed the greatest part of his fortune in giving libraries to townships and colleges, but, rather significantly, he found it necessary to give Hope College her gymnasium. After serving for nearly 50 years, the old building demanded a face-lifting, and in view of the many functions for which the building now serves, the Schouten-Carnegie Gym- nasium has become a major center of campus activity. That the old girl shows the strength of her builders is evidenced in her survival of such foot- Ioose and fancy-free affairs as the Penny Carnival.