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UNIQUE AND DrsT1NCT1vE way is a part of St. Olaf. It is the way of its mem- bers-faculty, administration, and stu- dents. It is the way of life, of learning, of playing. To our school come people from every area, of every status, and of every personality. Yet they are integrated and become a part of St. Olaf. Why? The answer lies in many things. Some are beyond the powers of expression, Some are the traditions, some the seemingly peculiar rules. Indeed, there are many who make St. Olaf their school. St. Olaf is a place to carry on the search that is innate in every individual. A search that com- pels them to find answers to inexplicable ques- tions. Here we grow in faith and make this faith mature and meaningful or here we be- come doubters, but We have opportunities to have our doubts wiped away, our questions answered. We search and find our own niche in life-a way we want to live, a place we want to stay. Most of us find new values, new ideals, and we work to attain our highest goals. Learn- ing and knowledge become our daily compan- ions and from facts, ideas, we mature and develop our own private way. But St. Olaf is more than a conglomerate of individual ways, it is more than a quest. This school is a place of warmth, vitality, intimacy. Perhaps the image of the St. Olaf family has been distorted until it has little meaning, there is no one big happy family. However, there are many families, many groups, and each stu- dent, new and old, finds his own. These groups are not entities unto themselves, but profit from and enjoy association with other groups. Thus while St. Olaf is not one family, the many families work and play and enjoy together, sharing in the way of St. Olaf. Yes St. Olaf is a unique and exciting way. We inevitably grow and become a part of this way. As freshmen, we are carefree, perhaps careless and thoughtless. Often as sophomores we realize the seriousness of our task, not just at St. Olaf, but in the years after our college days. We realize and often become disillu- sioned and even a little lost. But junior days come quickly and life begins to fall into place. As seniors we are eager to get into the world, even though there are pangs of nostalgia, we are anxious to find, to build a new way. Activities mold and show us how to get things done by working together. They fill up many hours but give a feeling of reward, of a job well done. And the arts: the music, the drama, the art, and the literature teach us to appre- ciate and enjoy the thing of beauty, of hap- piness and woe, of passion and love. But most important in the way is the life of the campus: the things we do-in dormitories, in classes, in Northfield, the things we discuss- politics, religion, life, the things we enjoy- sports, carnivals, queens. All these many events and thoughts that go to make up the way. And so we feel that this book is for every indi- vidual at St. Olaf. The professors who teach us the way, the administration which guides us, the activities that shape us, but most impor- tant to everyone at St. Olaf who is searching for or who has found the way. THE VIKING STAFF
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