University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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FOREWORD College avenue is not really an avenue hut part of a highway. In Kansas City it’s called the Express way and in Shreveport it’s Long boulevard. The part of the highway that is claimed by Arkansas carefully winds up the left side of the state and then turns east for a little while at Fort Smith until it meets another highway — a wide, black highway that has crossed the cotton fields and ricelands of eastern Arkansas to reach this spot at the base of the mountain. The highways meet at Alma and one turns northward, moving up the mountain. Here the highway is dangerous, and for fifty miles it curves, dives, winds and loops around the mountain above the passes and valleys that burn with color in the autumn and harbor clouds of rain and snow in the winter. The highway glazes with ice in the winter and isolates the small cities in the northwest corner of the state. Then is when it is most dangerous. At Winslow and West Fork the highway stops climbing and glides into the city limits of Fayette¬ ville. Here, for a short time, before speeding out toward the Missouri border and Kansas City, the highway becomes College avenue. Before it is halfway through Fayetteville, Col¬ lege avenue is bisected by Dickson street, which passes through Schuler Town to the University. The University is the focal point of the activities of more than 4.400 students. Here the students are given an opportunity to learn, to think and plan, and to participate in the affairs of a great institu¬ tion. With learning comes understanding, and with understanding comes the realization that every year spent at the University is a significant and gratify¬ ing experience The significance of this year is the purpose and only theme of this hook. It is a review of events, but more than that, it is a review of the people that came from the black delta of eastern Arkansas and the flat plains to the south and drove up the mountain.