Louisiana State University - Gumbo Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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. . . Whether it be the glaring heat of the sun on a mid-May afternoon or the shy pale-yellow early-morning frost-bitten sun of November, the light is with us all through the days. But the nights are with us too. The nights that we see the setting sun fling one last blaze of glory over the quickly-darkening earth, the nights that slow- ly silently reach out their soft dark fingers and embrace the breathless and waiting cypress trees. It is to the night, the hiding protectress night, that every student ' s day makes its irrevocable way . . .

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... In today ' s world, the artist studies beside the scientist; and the beauty of a mathematical equation is recognized as not at all foreign to the beauty of St. Peter ' s Basilica. And as the scientist leaves his laboratory, and changes his rubber apron for a cum- merbund, to go and listen to a Biggs recital of Bach, he knows that the work of physicists has contributed to the acoustical de- velopments that make this concert possible. So the scientist goes to art, and the artist returns to his own; and the synthesis of art and science, and the greater glory of God, is one step further on .

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. . . Night brings relief and release, and it brings out the bashful love, and the deep and sincere, true and last- ing love; the thousand eyes of the night look out and look on love. All about the walled enclosure of the campus lurks the outside world; and the ideas of the world, the life of the world, the world ' s reality all flow to the cam- pus; but the campus sifts, and sorts and chooses, and refines and straightens and mends; and the campus is se- cure and living . . .