Ohio Wesleyan University - Le Bijou Yearbook (Delaware, OH)

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1 l DEDICATION WITH GRATITUDE AND PRIDE.. . As We grow to realize more fully the sacrifices and contri- butions of men in service fighting for our freedom, the difficulty in expressing appreciation increases. However, with gratitude and pride We dedicate this 1943 Le Bijou to Wesleyan professors, students, and alumni who are now at World-scattered posts, defending our Way of life.

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1201-uiwolan We have Written this book thinking not entirely of the present, but more of a future, a sane and ordered future Where We can with pleasure look back on the more enduring essence of our colleg-e years. For in spite of the fact that collegiate fads are fickle and student bodies shifting, there are certain things which are per- manent and somehow singularly poignant about college life. Wistful thinking, perhaps We'll call it, when We pour over this book in twenty years, rememf bering the excitement of navy-inhabited Stuyf vesant, the sentimentality of last dances for armyfbound boys, the campus confusion of marching platoons, the sober realization when the gold stars first appeared on the university's service flags. For your 1963 memory material We present Le Bijou for 1943.

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ABOUT OHIO WESLEYAN . .. Rather tranquilly, with little fanfare, Qhio Wesleyan for a hun' dred and one years has built and grown and dreamed. From sketchy ideas of collegehood in 1842, Wesleyan has grown to the stature of a man, a man with ideals yet a man who has his feet sturdily planted in rich and enduring tradition. This Wesleyan tradition is, perhaps, not entirely founded on places, things, achievements so much as the personalities which have enriched its being and inspired the ideals which we recog- nize in our more modern college of today. For our university would be but a shallow, mechanical factory for degrees were it not for the vision of the men who dedicated their imaginations and their intellects to the building of our Ohio Wesleyan. Their names enchant us as do their staid oil portraits which hang in the much-travelled halls of Gray Chapel. Bewhiskered old gentlemen with fiery eyes and stern mouths, who had convictions that were enduring and the generosity to endow us with those idealisms which form the living personality of the university. A sane, stabilizing heritage they gave us, which no amount of uncer- tainty and warfborn hysteria can erase.