Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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wisdom, memories, pleasure, and learning. lts base is worn smooth by these constant steps, and its great metal door knobs display a gold- en luster revealing heavy duty. They have swung open to those who regretfully study for tests, in- dustriously labor over extra work, and to those headed for the stacks to collect material for that certain assigned something called a term paper. Perhaps they laugh at our efforts but it is not until our work is completed that we can laugh with them. The fraternity houses and their doorways of heavy oak, with their great iron knockers carved impressively and symbolically, are a part of Miami. Here, the students come for fellowship, enioyment, and that part of college that cannot be obtained from books. These doorways, old and new, represent culture. They mellow with the years, and their memories are carried into the far parts of the world. They hail their Greeks with imposing dignity. They lend culture and traditions unstintingly. How foreboding are the locked and unyielding doors of the women's dorms to the late-comers. How strong and stubborn they seem to the young swain who can not enter them. And yet, how eagerly are they thrust open by the coed coming back to another year. Here are doors who must share secrets, laughter, and fun. Here are the doors who see beauty clay in and day out. Lovers seek shelter in their shadows. They too exemplify the life of Miami. The busy hustle of young men and women set- ting out to enioy themselves is the life-blood to the portals of the college haunts. Their beauty and individual characteristics have c a r v e d themselves into the personal recollections of those students to whom they have already en- deared themselves, and shall equally impress those who have not yet become a part of the life they offer. These complete the picture of the doorways of our campus. We feel certain that the doorways of Miami gratefully recognize and accept our dedication to them. They were here before we came and they will be here after we have gone. They will grow in number as new buildings are introduced on the post war campus, but they will not know us as individuals. We are not permanent; we drift with the tide while they stolidly stand be- hind. '

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In New review stand. Relaxing at home. Miami suffered The loss of o greaT presi- denT and friend, and The cou nTry mourned The passing of o disTingUished man of leTTers when Dr. A. H. Uphom died on February 17 This year. We were forTunoTe To have known him, noT only as on execuTive, buT as a per- sonal friend. His was 0 personaliTy of grociousness, forTiTude and warm sincer- iTy. He has been popular wiTh sTudenTs 0nd foculTy alike for The 52 years of his ossocioTion wiTh The UniversiTy. He was QT Miami 05 O sTUdenT, OS 0 ToculTy member, and in 1928 he become PresidenT and served in This copociTy for 17 years. He was famous ThroughouT The UniTed SToTes as a speaker, men of IeTTers, 0nd educofor. As The backbone of The Uni- versiTy, he exTended his inTeresTs and plans To cover boTh presenT 0nd TuTure, end he always sTood for high ideals of educoTion and sound democorcy.