Thiel College - Endymon Yearbook (Greenville, PA)

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FOREWORD The fact that there is a philosophy of clothes has been sharply brought to universal attention by Carlyle in his SARTOR RESARTUS. Behold before you some small attempt to develop a philosophy of foot prints. People are leaving them all over. Where the ground is soft and conditions are proper they may last a long time. Dyno- saurs have left tracks that have lasted through milleniums. At other times a footprint may hardly be discernible. A breath of wind and it is gone. After a few hours even the highly gifted nose of the blood- hound can no longer tell that we have once passed this way. And we are warned that footprints are in general a fleeting thing, leaving no reminder on the sands of time. There are footprints all over our Thiel Campus. Thousands of students have come and have gone. Their feet have worn the steps, the floors, the sidewalks, the gravel paths, and even the greensward of the lawn. These feet have been bound on many purposes and missions, all connected with the full round of college life and activity. The footprints themselves have vanished. The wear and tear they have caused is not a thing by which we can worthily evaluate what these footprints have meant toward accomplishment. We should measure rather by the higher and better things which those who made these footprints either gave or received as they went about their college way. Of these truly valuable and lasting things we would make the ephemeral footprint a symbol. Thus we have attempted in this ENDYMION to fix some of the footprints you have left. We sincerely hope that you will recognize them, and that they Will bring back to you valued memories of your life at Thiel, as well as thankful recollections of those who shared with you this path, and of those who helped guide your footsteps to a fuller, richer life.