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

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I NTRO D UCTION THE 1937 SAXIGENA VIEWS SLIPPERY ROCK FROM FIVE DIFFERENT ASPECTS. THE FIRST SECTION OF THE BOOK DEALS WITH THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE COLLEGE THOSE PERSONALITIES WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COORDINATION OF THOSE FACTORS THAT MAKE UP A COLLEGE. ... THE SECOND SECTION IS CALLED CLASS-OLOGY.” IT GROUPS THE STUDENT BODY AS SENIORS, JUNIORS, SOPHOMORES AND FRESHMEN. . . . ••ACTIVITIES” GROUPS THE STUDFNT BODY ACCORDING TO THEIR SCHOLASTIC AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES. FRATERNITIES, THE COOPERATIVE ACTIVITIES, MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND CLUBS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS SECTION. . . . ••ATHLETICS” INCLUDES THOSE PEOPLE WHO WERE OUT-STANDING IN THE SPORTS LIFE OF THE SCHOOL. THE BOYS ON THE FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL, TRACK, TENNIS, SOCCER, SWIMMING AND GYM TEAMS ARE GIVEN RECOGNITION WITH THEIR COACHES. THE GIRLS ARE GIVEN RECOGNITION FOR PARTICIPATION ON THE HOCKEY, SWIMMING, AND BASKETBALL TEAMS. . . IN THE •’FEATURE” SECTION AN ATTEMPT HAS BEEN MADE TO CATCH PERSONALITIES ENGAGED IN ACTIVITIES TYPICAL OF THE COLLEGE STUDENT ON THE CAMPUS, IN THE DORM, IN THE CLASS ROOM, AND AT THE DANCES. A SLIPPERY ROCK

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PRESENTATION Footprints remain wherever life has tread, her FINGERPRINTS FAINTLY DOT THE EDGE OF THAT PRIMORDIAL OOZE FROM WHICH SHE FIRST EMERGED. THE TRILOBITE COUCHED IN HIS LIMESTONE TOMB, THE MAMMOTH CONGEALED IN SOME SIBERIAN GLACIER, AND MIGHTY RAMESIS WHO NEVER DREAMED HE WOULD GRACE A CORNER OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM-ALL POINT OUT WHERE LIFE HAS SET HER HEEL IN HER WANDERINGS. . . . LIFE LEAVES HER TRACES IN COLLEGE TOO-NAMES ON TREE TRUNKS AND FACES IN COLLEGE YEAR BOOKS. THAT IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE COLLEGE YEAR BOOK -TO RECEIVE THE IMPRINT OF YOUNG, HURRYING LIVES. . . . OUR BOOK AT SLIPPERY ROCK HAS BEEN CALLED THE SAXIGENA. WHO NAMED IT ONLY A FEW REMEMBER NOW; IT HAS BECOME ANOTHER TRADITION. IT IS SAID THAT THE NAME WAS ADAPTED FROM THE LATIN AND MEANS SPRUNG FROM THE ROCK. IT HAS RECENTLY BECOME CUSTOMARY FOR THE JUNIOR CLASS TO PUBLISH THE SAXIGENA IN HONOR OF THE GRADUATING SENIORS. . . . HOPING THAT WE HAVE CAUGHT THE SOMEWHAT EVASIVE SPIRIT OF SLIPPERY ROCK, THE CLASS OF 1938 PRESENT THIS BOOK TO OUR GRADUATING SENIORS. THE 19 3 7 S A X I G E N A S

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 OUTH ADMIRES HONESTY AND SINCERITY I ABOVE ALL OTHER VIRTUES, EVEN THOUGH YOUTH IS OFTEN ACCUSED OF CARING TOO MUCH FOR THE SUPERFICIAL. WE FEEL, THEREFORE, THAT THE MAN WHO PRACTICES THE PHILOSOPHY HE BELIEVES MERITS RECOGNITION. THE DEDICATION OF THIS BOOK IS SHARED BY PROF. CLYDE H. LADY.