Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Our view of Lipscomb includes... Verdant lawns, majestic rows of trees, stately columned buildings, an interlacing network of paths—this is the campus. Lipscomb is a place—with a natural setting of beauty in addition to a well designed architectural plan. It is beautiful to the beholder—in the cool, pastel dawn of a spring morning, in the deafening silence of a | snowstorm, and in the soft, peaceful twilight of an autumn evening. It is a place with a special significance. Lipscomb is people—students, teachers, administrators. They are caught up together in a constant struggle— for happiness, grades, popularity, accomplishment. . . . This is their life together—constant changes and adjustments. As in life everyhere for all people, life at Lipscomb is made up of moments of disappointment, happiness, success and failure. There are times of excitement—football championship games, campaigns for student body elections, Homecoming—and of routine—classwork, cafeteria lines, study until midnight. It is a good life. Lipscomb is inspiration. Moments spent together in quiet contemplation and thinking—expressed and unexpressed— bring us closer to each other and to our Creator. Young voices blending in harmony—this is the sound of Lipscomb. Singing, laughing, and learning, we find that college is not an abstract term—it is as real as the students themselves. Lipscomb is vivid with the memories of happiness, of service, of tradition, and of love which make it a part of our lives. The college is a part of us. Page 6

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Traditions To Enlighten... Essential to the stimulation of a school are the customs unique to a particular college campus. Respect and enthusiasm for traditions are encouraged at Lipscomb. Before a ritual or ceremony becomes known as a tradition it must demonstrate that it in some way represents the college. The Bell Tower, erected by the class of 1935, has been a framework for more than one interesting campus custom. It has become traditional that if a boy and a girl walk together through the stone arches of the tower, they are unofficially announcing their forthcoming marriage. Each year at the graduation ceremony, the impressive climax comes at the tolling of the bell—one peal for each year the college has been in session. An unofficial tradition during pleasant weather involves the curved wall outside the cafeteria. “Sitting on the wall’ after the evening meal is an integral part of a student’s social life. An inspirational custom of the warm weather months is that of having evening devotionals on the steps of Alumni Auditorium. Few experiences are as spontaneously soul-stirring as are these brief moments of meditation and worship. One tradition not unique with Lipscomb is graduation— the climax of four years of study and stimulating experiences. Long live the traditions of Lipscomb! THE QUIET hour of twilight provides a setting of peace and contemplation for daily devotionals during spring quarter on the steps of Alumni Auditorium. Page 8