University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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The clean will see you . . . Many students have heard those words spoken, and each has profited by his conversation with the Rev. J. B. Dwyer, S. J., the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Whether the conference concerns schedule changes, permission to carry more than the maximum hours, or even academic problems, students have learned to appreciate and profit by the sage advice of Fr. Dwyer. The dean of the largest college of the University has more than enough paper work to occupy his time- applications for admission, report cards, probation reports, plus individual schedules for all students enrolled in A Sz S-yet he is always available as counsellor for the many people who stream in and out of his oiiice during the day. To the uninitiated and somewhat apprehensive new students he is a friend who won't laugh at their many questions. To the wise and settled senior he is the man with all the answers to the com- plicated process of graduating. To one and all, the Dean's office is the haven where the trials and tribulations of university life can be straight- ened out. To the worried, waiting student the words, The Dean will see you now mean new hope and encouragement. ll9Wu.q

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Entering the University is more than just the start of a year, or even an era-it is the beginning of a life. Here the new freshman will find friendship, frustration, inspiration, and knowledge. Here he will meet the great philosophers, artists, and writers. Here he comes to appreciate God and his fellow man, perhaps for the first time. And, if he spends his four years well, he will leave here and spend the rest of his life with the firm conviction that he really knows very little. This is the womb of civilized man. In the mind's eye of the mellowed senior, the trepidation and enthusiasm of the entering student is refreshing and a little saddening. He can look forward to the hilarious tableaux of registration-watching the poor freshman's first shocked acquaintance with that mile-long form, the fumbling attempts to understand the multitudinous cards incidental to education, and his awkward struggles to pass from building to building without dropping anything important. He also sees a picture of himself a few years before . . . and wonders if any of these so-small, so-young people will make as many mistakes as he has, experience the same things, or hate the same professors. He'l1 help where he can to make the freshman feel at home, but he knows that the real orientation of growth and thought is something subjective that cannot be communi- cated.

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Students are urged to greet one another. Admission to the University is ipso ceptance to qugrzng. no Student Handbook