St Edwards University - Tower Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Plain, sprawling, and rather stodgy, Memo- rial Gymnasium doesn’t have much visible personality, and the fall of footsteps sound noisy, yet empty, when the students are gone. To Edsmen, though, it remains a warm and friendly place. They hear within its walls the echoes of the cheers of students down through the years, encour- aging score on score of athletes in the conference games as well as the intramural rivalries. To them it is never quiet, never dull; for there they've seen victory and defeat, and have learned to take both well. The Class of 1959 will add its flag to the staff when graduation time arrives. The presentation of a new flag by the senior class has become another of the many traditions at St. Edward's.

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Down the drive toward the Main Building stands a wooden structure. On the outside it is plain and humble, and the freshman at first feels the same about the interior. Yet here are needed no special decorations. The Chapel and its significance add’ even another facet to life at St. Edward’s, one which comes to mean more and more to the freshman as the years go by. And farther down the path is the Grotto, a spot so serene it is difficult to realize that only steps away students are cram- ming for quizzes, getting a date, and writ- ing home for money. The Chapel and the Grotto offer a place for evaluation and culmination of all learning and living . . . a re-emphasis of the purpose of human beings.

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He meets the President... BROTHER ELMO BRANSBY, C.S.C. President “How do you do, John?” More than a formal reply to an introduction, this question is uppermost in the mind of the President of St. Edward’s University, Brother Elmo. His concern lies with the well-being as well as the scholastic progress of all the students at St. Edward’s. A man of wisdom, warmth, vision, and humor, Brother Elmo has directed the University since 1950.