Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Temple University is an urban university. There is no campus and few ivy-colored walls ... - TEMPLAR 1953 Each year, the editors of the TEMPLAR attempt the near - impossible task of trying to explain, in words and on paper, the essence of Temple University. From year to year, their methods vary. Some try by printing a short synopsis of the university ' s history. Temple University had its beginnings back in 1884, when a group of young men who wished to study for the ministry asked Dr. Russel H. Conwell, minister of Baptist Temple, to help them in a series of night school courses. — TEMPLAR, 1955 For others, such as those who put together the 1972 book, it ' s the reprinting of Joni Mitchell. Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan song lyrics. Or a Lenny Bruce monologue, ... San Francisco, I got arrested for . . . I ' m not going to repeat the word because I want to finish the gig here tonight. In 1966, the editors took a close look at various aspects of the campus, particularly the then newly-completed Park Mall, in their attempt to explain the school. The Mall is ... a symbol of life at an institution distinctly urban in character where the majority of students are commuters. For many of them, the Mall is their only contact with activity on campus aside from their elasses.-TEMPLAR. 1966 Then there are those who chose to point out the more obvious aspects of this urban community. Temple University, on the spine of a dynamic metropolis, a landscape of asphalt, concrete, steel. In the midst of urban life, the reality of poverty and despair.-TEMPLAR. 1968 Some took a more pessimistic route, If you can ' t go to college, go to Temple, was the phrase circulating among the seniors of the Philadelphia high schools in 1967. TEMPLAR. 1971

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Templar 1979 Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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HOT BA SAUSA HAM I BACON BOILED F R E S ITALIAN TUN A SWISS ROAST Others were optimistic. Unlike Al-Hated, the Persian who lost his lite in a futile search for diamonds, college students this year again found educations acres of diamonds in wartime Philadelphia at Temple University -TEMPLAR. 1943 These are just a few of the many who have tried to explain Temple University. Well, we the staff of this, the 1979 edition of the Templar, have decided to forsake any attempt at explaining Temple University because we believe that it simply can ' t be done. It ' s impossible. To understand the school, actual behind- the-lines experience helps, but that ' s no guarantee. Many enter, attend and graduate without even understanding any more than they did before they first came here. Which is not to put the school down. On the contrary, most of us like, and even enjoy it here. It ' s just that trying to explain the school is a fruitless task. We know, we ' ve tried. What we hope to do with this book is to give you, the reader, a glimpse of what life here at Temple is like. If you ' ve attended and graduated from the school perhaps these images will be a bit more understandable. But if you haven ' t, we feel you ' ll still be able to enjoy the book. To anyone who may feel that we ' ve left something out, we apologize. To include everything would take volumes and we only have a few hundred pages. We do feel, however, that we have accomplished our objectives and reached our goals of sharing, but perhaps not explaining what it is, this Temple University. Enjoy the book . . .