Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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“What a man learns he must learn for himself.” Teachers instruct and guide him, procedures of classroom and laboratory aid and stimulate him, but all these count for little unless he has the will to learn. The food that Alma Mater gives him must Ik digested and assimilated if it is to count for anything in his personal growth.

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In the laboratory the student peers at reality. He handles materials, learns something of their hidden nature, how they react. He practices processes and tech- niques. He obtains a sense of the vastness of the universe and the complexity of the cell. He grasps some of those principles that are the core of human knowledge. L

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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.