Montana State University - Sentinel Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

Page 9 text:

. . . Seeing drawn together in this form so many different values to which we personally have not had time to give much attention, does something to overcome this feeling. At least it has for us who have classified and organized and shaped this volume, for we have learned how many, many parts there are to this school and how small and in- complete each separate part is until pieced together into a whole picture. As we take this look in retrospect at the year we have just spent, those things in which we have personally participated will bring us the richest memories, and those persons who have participated in the most, will find the fullest meaning in this book. If it were possible for some person to parti cipate in everything it would be he who would most clearly understand the importance of the whole school and the whole year; for he would see that although every element has its value, the value of all of them together Is infinitely greater than any one. He would realize that the University is all of them; and, perhaps, that society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

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isBJ ' BJP r7=3 rTJ n=» f j r7 jrBjrs-rBuiBjrs..jiB..ss rsLj A yearbook justifies itself in being a permanent record of a certain memorable period in our lives. Later on we may look at it a gain and remember. It is a compilation of events in a form which represents our school, with at least enough completeness to suggest the rest. It brings to our attention how very wide the range of activity of the University is. It sharpens the realization that it is impossible for each of us to participate in everything. As we go through these college years we all find it necessary to concentrate within our special fields, we live in our separate rooms or dorms or houses, we become closely confined within our own organiza- tions and associate with those whose interests are quite close to our own. As time and effort make our own pursuits increasingly important to us, it becomes only too simple for us to develop the attitude that our specialties and organizations ore the most justifiable, that our way of doing things is the most correct, that our associates are the only ones worth having. Toward things and people not our own, we easily become indifferent, and even contemptuous . . .

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Drawn together here are the happenings of a full and unusual year. We look back over a scene which will be long remembered, from the beginning of a new type of col- lege life in last spring ' s comparative quiet . . .