Syracuse University - Onondagan Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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HAT is a university? More than buildings, faculty, syllabi and even stu- dents. What is Syracuse University? More than a constantly expanding complex of buildings on Piety Hill. More than a roster of distinguished scholars. More than fifteen thousand students . . . even more than a nation- ally known football team. A university becomes a Whole far greater than the sum of its parts. lt becomes a being of its own, with per- sonality, will and aspiration, peculiar and unique. It becomes a living organ- ism finding its strength and soul from a unique alloy of many diverse and disparate entities.

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M More than even sm- lfaiversity? ,gtpanding Pita' Hill- Qgiaguishcd Q thousand an 1 nation- nq h I C fx parts. lf with PCI' ri. peculiar ' 1 from f will . ---ret Wd Each of us is part of this Syracuse University. Each retains his individu- ality, wrestles with his own problems, seeks his own goals. Yet each of us loses part of himself to this universe of which he is a part. From this he gains strength even as he gives it. From the diversity of its components a university gains a unity all its own. Unity through diversity makes Syra- cuse University what it is today. just what it is today has never been articulated g perhaps it never can be. All we can do is define its components and sense the whole that coalesces from them. For this mystic entity, which we call our university, can never be seen in its entirety any more than we on a small planet, called Earth, can see all of the universe in which our globe orbits. Its parts can be seen. And the Onon- oiazgam presents to you some of the tan- gibles of an intangible whole. Each .of us will see even these parts differently. The image our eye carries off these pages will be tinted with our own memories, with our own aware- ness, within the context of our years on the Hill in which the events re- corded here have their own diversity of significance, of interpretation, of retention. Let's tour this piece of geography -the physical Syracuse University. 5