Slippery Rock University - Saxigena Yearbook (Slippery Rock, PA)

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F RESHMAN 0 Ah, the touching futility of a violin with a broken bow or artistic fingers Without a paint brush! Alas, the pathos of a nursery barren of childish laughter or a college without a freshman. The freshman is the indispensable element to college atmosphere, the evening ingredient. He is at once court jester, official goat, errand boy,

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conventional ideasg teach us to perform our asinine hocus pocus for the benefit of credulous clod-hoppersg smother us with standardized this, that, and everything, and finally turn us out, stamped and approved, as good docile products who, because we have never even heard of think- ing, can not and will not cause any trouble to the established order. If the purpose of life is self-development, however, and we are not to go out one of a vast herd baaing a standardized baa, we need educators who realize that development of their student's potential forces can never be accomplished by puttering around on the surface of their minds. Education must proceed from withing if this is true, why should we troop into classes day after day where some one goes through the approved ritual of feeding us a few petty facts that we could much more comfortably read at home, and then gravely pronouncing either a benediction or a malediction over us as we wend our lowing way across the lea. These are they who will draw out our latent possibilities, and after all that is the purpose of education. C- K- L- IIEALTH EDUCATION--Standing: Mr. Thompson, Mr. Cottrell, Dr. Gallagher, Mr. Dodds, Miss Sanderson, Miss Compton. Seated: Miss Matheny. ARTS-Standln51:Mlss Gerherich, Mrs. Arnold, Mr. Miller. Seated: Miss Griffin, Mr. Hclntzelman. - any A 'WY

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safety valve for overwrought sophomores as well as a receptive audience for the achievements and prowess of his sophisticated brothers and sisters. We have been all of these. We have borne sophomore pleasantries with equanimity and heroic stoicism. We have gaped in wide-eyed wonderment at the accomplishments of our upper classmen. But our contributions have not all been passive. We have given our young, eager enthusiasm to all the college enterprises. We have an unusual number of able representatives on the basketball and football teams. Our intellectual possi- bilities are sound. That We have adjusted ourselves to campus life is shown by the representation of the blue and white in extra-curricular activities. What we do with our future is our task. ln our hands we have the finest of tempered metal to be hammered out by our powers. We intend to create an image that is fine, unblemished, and beautiful.