Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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gf 10 fi 24' 71 2? ' ' 37. ,. 'ffl N fllllln I L lr l Alma Mater Far within Wisco1zsin's prairies, Wreathed in laurels green, Stancls our nolnle Alma Mater, Ripon's glorious queen. Long she's stood 'mid cloud and sunshine Firmly bravecl the storm, Loyal hearts now laid thee greeting. Praises true and warm. Chorus: Lift the chorus, speed it onward, Shout from sea to sea,- Hail to thee, our Alma Mater, Hail, all hail, to thee.

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uw? fr 'Ulla 1024 WZ Q.Hic -H 5 i New Ripon -U is l From Ceresco to Ripon if, HY Ceresco, Wisconsin, should have been chosen by a, pioneer band as a AI place conducive to eonnnunistic interests. nature richly explains. Here 2 was fertile land entirely unclaimed and inviting cultivation, ,with a beautiful stream tlowing down through a valley. and hillsides covered with valuable tim- it-I ber, basswood. oak, pine, and maple. Such was the region which the Wisconsin Phalanx selected as the place where the principles olf Carles lfourier might be worked out ideally and practically, to the advantage olf the race and themselves. t The eonnnnnity they named Ceresco. in honor ol' Ceres, the classical M, goddess of harvest. adding co.'l the ahl.n'ex'iation ol' company ' ' fl Here during the years IS-L2 to 18-lb. experiments were attempted, based upon the principles enunciated by ' Fourier, and seeking to demonstrate t that an ideal society can exist and L - 9 grow and come at last to ameliorate y N social conditions. By-laws against l p iinniorality and vice sought to eradi- it cate all social evils from the connnu- ffl nity, All business affairs were placed lil in the hands of a council. Thus the individual was lost sight of except as a ineniber of one great 'liilllllly which is . . . if iiorined the social unit. . . pg' ln a, practical sense, however. this Phalanx 'Formed what we would terin a cooperative iiarni, a scheme well pi K adapted to the conditions ot pioneer - . , , . . lx lite. A group oil: people living to- t gether? thinking together, and work- a better living, better schools 'for their lj children, better advantages for social f intercourse, -and less privation. than could have been possible for isolated i pioneers coining upon an- unbroken lg frontier such as existed in the vicinity 1' of Ceresco- Silfvnr Crack iw! l l W it i i i-- all i -i U31 me is im is was g Awsfcffcfecifiiis Page 9 J, l ing together could do inuch to obtain l