Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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While studies advance his intellectual growth, the student engages also in co-curricular activities, shares the companionship of fellow students, learns the codes of social life. Military ball, sophomore cotillion, or junior prom— decorations, corsages, favors, big name bands—are colorful highlights in the student’s experience. Seen from the outside, campus life may appear like a country club or carnival. But fun is as necessary as studies in developing personality. Frivolity may conceal aspiration not yet expressible in conscious thought or words. Youth plays at adulthood before taking it on fully. Tasting the sparkling surface of life it finds a foretaste of mature experience. Dancing partners in a brief moment epitomize a partnership that is as long as life.

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Folk dances and folk songs interpret the culture of many lands and times. Similarly, activities and organizations of the campus community express the changing enthu- siasms of successive student generations as well as something of the university’s enduring personality. The student becomes a part of his campus and absorbs its spirit. L