University of Akron - Tel Buch Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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Without these people, the buildings would stand mute . . . unable to mutter one idea of their own. Without these people, the University would have nothing to give but silence . . . the echo of unasked questions. Without their curiosity, the University would stand in stillness . . . a symmetrical exercise in buildings and books. The University exists because they exist. They are the University . . . they are what it stands for . . . it is what they make of it. The University grows only when they grow . . . when the ideas they find here are used to replenish and change the world about them. lay Slider : aH 11

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The Year . . . Somehow it Began Long lines of weary people lean against the walls outside and contemplate the dollar signs and figures which appear on the clattering cash registers inside. Titles and course numbers, authors and schedules are forgotten. The price will be remembered. A jumble of faces and books and shelves, and did you say eight dollars for this . . . Some time later they escape, with little white bags over- flowing with all the books they need, (and one or two they didn ' t). 13