University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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A Place A 4 On Saturday afternoon -the chips are down and a man plays a hunch. in Time A man of letters-dressed in khakis descends the steps of Frazier, thinking about the words of lbsen. Suddenly, he ' ' gets inspired -writes nonsense in his ' A notebook, I am part of everything and r y all of nothing . Then he sees us, it is cold, and we go have coffee. , Eleven visiting behemoths are deter- ' W mined that it won't work, but it does. We find out about it on Monday and g talk about it all week. Dressed in the robes of scholars, some , of us will one day, feel slightly out of place as we take part in a ceremony designed to be a recognition of accom- plishment. All of us however, will, for the rest of our days, be obliged to think. 9

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The meaning education is nebulous-and properly so. We can only T pay tribute to the complexes V T which make our being here J worth while. No one of us T , should be able to point to a 0 single facet of our curriculum or our way of life and say, A This is what l'm here for- Y if it were to be removed from my world today, I'd leave tomorrow, because I'd be wasting my time . In truth, no one of us can. T The feeling of a mathematician as he wonders at a number called infinity-or in a beautiful moment of comprehension could have discovered the system of loga- rithms, are manifest in his personality and be- come part of our life. The Overtones of. . . of a college There are very few places other T than Universities where such tre- y mendous collections of potential T spends its working hours on wooden chairs and its sleeping hours in bunk beds. feels that he too, 8

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