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fii to sea, replenishing the earth with its sediments and threatening with its floods in the background. Here on its banks is L.S.U. It is a product of its environment the land, the times, and the people. Article 136 of the state constitution of 1812 provided for the establishment of a seminary of learning, but this interesting detail was not acted on until 1852. In that year the Louisiana State Legislature passed act 216, locating such a future school in Rapides Parish within a four-mile radius of Alexandria, on the north side of the Red River. The following legislative session of 1853 saw the endorsement of Act 72 on March 31, which approved a site of 438 acres in the present Pineville area, of which the cost . . . shall not exceed the sum of $3,190. In 1857 a Board of Visitors was organized and less than a year later was renamed the Board of Supervisors. Among its first acts was the election of Wil- liam Tecumseh Sherman (of Sherman s March through Georgia fame), and army resignee practicing law in Kansas, as head of the her present dynamic ' mmmmmm , . . : m -
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of a lost romanticism, of day-dreams, ideals, and progressivism of drive and remembrance that is unique. People do interesting things. The artist, the intellectual, the individualist, and those well-known conformists, Joe College and Betty Coed mix in a melee that sends facts, rumors, news, gossip, congratulations, and scandal flying over the Old War Skule. Shaved heads, beanie caps, and the Pajama Game that all freshmen must endure are signs of their activity. Clocks in the fraternity houses ticking away the quiet hours before homecoming and the roar of the crowd as the Tigers do in Ole Miss of Go-to-Hell fame are all images of the campus. In the same vein is the tower soaring into the sky and singing out its melodies during the day, alive with light and booming out the hours by night lending its sonorous ac- companiment to the studious, the Greek initiation, the sleeping campus, the Reveille editor up all night and the GUMBO staff rushing to meet a publisher ' s deadline. Mike-the-T iger dozing in the sun, his tail twitching; or roaring at the game, his tail flailing is the living symbol and mentor of L.S.U. From the loneliness and grandeur of his cage, he is the master of all he surveys the stadium, the track and the Campus Security office. Yet all activity is subject to modification by greater powers. Limbs cracking in Hurri- cane Hilda and grass rippling in the breeze from the river are its omens. The river itself, fog-shrouded and sinister, or sunlit and smiling cold, silent, relentless, moving from land
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