Ohio Northern University - Northern Yearbook (Ada, OH)

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For four years of his life, a student’s home is Ohio Northern, and his life is the heartbeat of the University. Here he learns. He learns from books, and more than books. He learns about winning and losing. .. on tests, in intramurals, in a fraternity, in friendships. There are classes and parties and ball games and concerts and bull sessions and letters and people met everywhere that en¬ rich the experiences of his college life. Sometimes the meaning of these things is not clear. Yet, however con¬ fused a student may be when he leaves Ohio Northern, his confusion will soon fade into a more mature under¬ standing of his world. YEARS May Day in the “Roaring Twenties.

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ACTUALLY CHANGED How do we determine an “actual change?” Used in its most common sense, to change would mean to make a material difference so that a thing is distinctly other than it was at one time. In this sense things have changed a great deal. One has only to note the rise in tuition, sports slump, complaints of all types, and most obviously, the new buildings for proof. But in this analysis we are concerned with some¬ thing a bit more abstract. With the construction of our new buildings, it is hard to walk through a muddy, rutted campus. You stumble over boards and planks, circumnavigate puddles and holes and life gets generally difficult. And yet . . . dreams are realized by front end loaders, visions fulfilled by wheelbarrows, and a new Northern emerges from the chaos. Material change has not changed the basic Northern student. Is he not still striving for the best education possible, whether it be from the College of Pharmacy, Engineering, Law or Liberal Arts? Can his spirit and enthusiasm be outdated? Have things actually changed?