Quincy University - Gyrfalcon Yearbook (Quincy, IL)

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Time to Study As one student said, it seems that everyone from the presi- dential candidates to mother and dad, aunts and uncles and the professors pointed a forefinger at me and said, College is for study, not play. And everytime the Russians grimaced at the west, they repeated their admonition. Whatever the motive or inspiration, there appeared this year what seemed to be a more serious approach to the whole idea of acquiring and using knowledge at Quincy College. There was an undercurrent flowing through even the quietest classrooms and study periods on the campus that cast up a sense of urgency ... for man was reaching, not only the stars, but deep inside himself and backward in time, adding new knowledge almost daily to his store. A student must hurry if he was not to be swept aside onto a barren shore as the current of new knowledge carried him along. On this page and the next two are scenes of Quincy Col- lege students this year, pursuing their studies, and illustrating that at least the big majority seemed to be cooperating with the idea of hard, persistent study: whether on account of the Russians or the collective forefinger pointing at them, is not known. At work in the lan- guage laboratory