Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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S« v am ■ am • Lake a stna of old Greece in sin Athenian grove. John- Li U Sion Hall, the teal of three University colleges, stands un- UX JL JL J j XL changingly along a busy metropolitan thoroughfare. Count- less groups of students, class after class, mote in and out of its Gothic portals. Silently it watches, one unchanging presence in the pulsing life of the University ... the heart of Marquette as Science Hall is the head. Mellowed by its years of sen ice Johnston Hall has endeared itself to the many students who have spent the greater part of their school lives there. It has become synonymous with Marquette.

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• A vernal transformation which Spring alone can bring upon the Hilltop becomes a perennial treat. Through the long winter when only snow swirls through the quadrangle on the edge of University yard, it is comforting to know that but a feu months and the heart of a hare, rock-frozen ground will soften with the gentle persuasion of Spring. Soon to flower forth in shrub and foliage, campus verdure each season is stippled with the maroon and yellow of great crocuses which spread their beds along the lau n. An even fairer touch is visible in the Marquette coeds. SPRING

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VOLUME TWENTY • Anniversary edition...the culmination of years of struggle, the flowering of the combined experiences of previous publications, the occasion for a stronger effort even though its resources seemed to have reached the limit of extension... such is the call that every staff answers with the best of which it is capable. • Twenty years at Marquette... twenty years of struggle to nurture, develop and maintain a yearbook that is worthy of the University. With an insignificant beginning in the spring of 1915, the Hilltop was scarcely established when the Great War brought a cessation of activities and called many of the students into the service of their country. For three years the annual struggled along, threatened continuously with extinction, but supported by staffs that determined to keep life in the infant publication intrusted to their keeping. As the country emerged from the throes of war a new life began to pulse through the University and a memorial edition of the yearbook was published, dedicated to the Marquette men who had sailed for France never to return. Unprecedented success greeted the Hilltop, drawing it from the shadow of defeat and starting it on an era of constant advancement. • Many years of successful development followed until, at the end of the decade, an economic depression threatened to suspend College activities as thoroughly as the War had done. Continuing its work toward a more perfect volume, the yearbook has striven for the same standard of quality despite falling circulation and loss of advertising. • If Hilltop XX reflects these two decades of progress, if it shows evidence of having profited from experiences of the past, if it portrays the continual uplifting and expansion of the University, if it upholds the ideals and principles that have guided Marquette for over fifty years, if it truthfully reflects the spirit of the students, if it merits the slogan, It's twenty years better ...then the existence of the Hilltop of 1934 is justified and its obligations to school and alumni fullfilled.