Oakwood University - Acorn Yearbook (Huntsville, AL)

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It is not likely that Books have ever played such an important part in the lives of so many as they do today. The Book is the open sesame to the wells of learning. Presently new skills have been developed that have increased the reading speed and with it a corresponding acceleration in comprehension that makes it possible and pleasurable to read more books . . . gg.-an-null sm, ,...,f Books are keys to wisdom's treasure: Books are gates to lands of pleasure: Books are paths that upward leadg Books are friends, Come let us read. By: EMILIE POULSSON 'F '- . I From the volume of I Love Books by John D. Snider-a voluminous reader of around 600 books a year-are taken the words of a lonely monk, who afterwards became known as the Archbishop of Poictiers. uOur house is empty save only myself and the rats and mice who nibble in solitary hunger. There is no voice in the hall, no tread on the stairs. The clock has stopped . . . the pump creaks no more. But I sit here with no company but books, dipping into dainty honeycombs of literature. All minds in the world,s history find their focus in the library . .

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4 1 . . . This is the pinnacle of the temple from which we may see all the kingdoms of the World and the glory of them. I keep Egypt and the Holy Land in the closet next to the window. On the side of them are Athens and the empire of Rome. Never was such an army mustered as I have here. No general ever had such soldiers as l. No kingdom ever had half such illustrious subjects as mine or half as well governed . . . The disciplines to which the college campus strives to expose those that enter to learn, alas, are the living words of hooks . . . Mower I-umm 'i bulb-avi It .MMV '1- . . . The expanding paper-hook industry has undergone a face lifting and the paper hack has a new facade. Today a student can purchase a library with some of the foremost classics of the Vlfestern World for ten dollars. Book learning is not tabooed, in fact too many, college students engage in athletic reading, and it amounts to that, just before examina- tion. To them a hook is not an obstacle to he overcome. To appreciate books with fervor is one of the primary aims of Ci Pictures are ICl'IIfI01l'S to any lands, But a book is a door that ready stands, To lzinz who will open and to Outside Where the I'l'l'CfS and plans are free and 101.076 Pictures are zt'1'r1z1o1t's tlzrollglz zvlziclz zvc look. But the aloor of the zrorlzt is just zz book. .DXNNETE YYYNNPI higher education.