Syracuse University - Onondagan Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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X Maile exclusively of Empire Portland Cement BRIDGE, CASTLE GROUNDS infancy. At present thestudent body lacks homogeneity. It is sometimes impossible to dis- tinguish the upper from the lower classmen. The rapid numerical growth has brought to- gether a large number of students bound by no restraining college traditions. In consequence O . . . v . 7 . . . l this ue haxe had an influx of' new fraternities, many of them Without the guidance of local alumni. As age comes, natural selection with its law of the survival of the fittest Will unerr- ingly operate. It is here that the new gymnasium is to be a potent force, not directly, but as a rallying point for the social forces that will unify the institution. The Junior Promenade R Made exclusively of Empire Portland Cement ENTRANCE TO STADIUM 15 B K 4

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feeling. In the interestofculture, men will cease to be athletic specialists. The Phi Beta Kappa key will cease to be they special badge of the Women, and will be worn along with the block S. Courtesy to oppo- nents Will be the universal rule. That the games are games and not the most vital interests of our student life, will gain gradu- al recognition. The greatest boon the athletic spirit of the past has conferred upon the institution has been its unifying influence. It has been the one great fact ofstudent life in which Made exclusively of Empire Portlautl Cement PROMENADE, bi ann. xi the university, as a Whole, has loomed above the separate college D The social life of the 1nst1tut1on Will be largely affected bi mo ft Hurts ut in their Tlmciilcus' QNU1 I N 1+ 'wg fa if

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and the Senior Ball have demonstrated that, without any formal action of the faculty, the center of our social activity has been shifted to the campus. When the frontage on Uni- versity and College places has become filled with dormitories like the halls already completed, another force will be at work in the same direction. As New England today feels the impress of the early puritan, so the university can never get away from the fact that it was founded by men who gave their prayers along with their money. They intended to build both for humanity and for their church. The religious spirit has always been strong. Thelfuture will never see it otherwise. Some day the spite ofa beautiful gothic chapel will point heavenward from this hill. Some devout man or woman will endow a modern plant for the christian association work. i CROUSAE COLLEGE AUDITORIUM 16 l