Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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Amid the daylight of the present, the future beckons to us in the form of a new building under construction, zvhile the past speaks through many a hallowed campus landmark. osc Builds On and On 9

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Man's knowledge, once partial like the light of dawn, now dazzles us with its multitude of disciplines, like the Sun at midday and in afternoon. By endless toil and long searching, by courage and persistence, by dreaming and thinking, by counseling and cooperating with his fellows, man has amassed and preserved knowledge and skills to advance and protect his life and to delight his soul. A modern university is a marvelous manifestation of man's hunger for knowledge and his will to achieve it. Oregon State, heir of the ages, has a Library of three hundred thousand books, seventy departmental faculties, and a hundred fields in which we may major as undergraduates or specialize in graduate school. Here we learn skills of hand and brain. We study science and technolog)' in laboratory, shop, and field. We read in literature, arts, and philosophy. We master facts and principles, discuss and debate, weigh and ponder. Of course, we let many opportunities slip by us. Sometimes we may seem careless and thoughtless. But we are here for a purpose. We make no mean gains. We pack into our lives values that will serve us through life and cannot pass away.