Sweet Briar College - Briar Patch Yearbook (Sweet Briar, VA)

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' . vM aumarh Not quite five centuries ago, the great scholar Erasmus ended a letter to his close friend and associate, John Colet. on a discouraged note questioning, ' ' Who would put up with the life of a schoohnaster who could get a living any other way? This discontent was mutual, for Colet was equally disgusted with the students at the English Universities, feeling that such disciplinary regulations as: ' The undergraduate is expressly forbidden to encourage an inordinate growth of hair . . . , or, ' ' No one shall prevent his fellows from studying or sleeping by singing, making a noise, shouting, dis- charging guns, or by any other kind of uproar or din . . . ' , should not be necessary. How similar it is today, or is it? Superficially, very different, basically, very much the same today ' s institution of higher learning still retains much of its innately medieval structure, many of the quaint traditions, and naturally, that most unchangeable of all elements, people. If one feels that most of the world has changed almost beyond recognition they must still admit that schooling has remained rel- atively untouched, and perhaps for those who see that man of to- day is not so far removed from the world of his ancestors, they can see that in the realm of the student there is nothing new. (EnntpntH ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY.... 7 CLASSES 28 ACTIVITIES 1 16 ATHLETICS 150 MAY COURT 162 DIRECTORY 165 v.♦ ' -v •

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