University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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V ,0. ...A , .vu ,N ,gt ,.. .. V U. X , V ll as I sg 'X ,rs sm, lluvsjfo ms mL Twenty ve years ago there was nothing but Thomas Hall today we have the score or more o beauti ul ivy clad buildings A mere hand ul of scattered students in 1905 and a quarter o a cen tury later a campus teeming with li e filled to the over owing with the ower o the young manhood o the state The campus changes year by year month by month even day by day The change is ever in a positive and not in negative direction There have been problems to meet, and they have been met wisely and decisively, and the University has grown, ourished and prospered - As we stop to review the early days, we wonder at the miraculous growth o the institution. The days of the war were lean and hard, but the decade of the twenties saw the great development. These ten years ' HW y M Wg?- if'TD3TTfQE99GrCT 3 i f l p 'f 'f I fif s U fl ' ' fl 'fl if, t f F. . .. I . f saw the passing of one great man as president and the coming of another, it saw the coming of many new buildings, new minds to the faculty, and the enrollment increased by leaps and bounds. The alumni, but a few hundred a decade ago, now are many thousand strong and carry the banner of the institution in nearly every field of endeavor. . ,T he old gives way to the new, the new becomes old and gives way to the new again. We hasten to keep pace with the ever-quiclcening movement of our time. The University is young and yet old. But it is and will ever be the very life blood of our state. It is a far cry from the sleepy days just following the turn of the century to the atmosphere of today, with its rush and bustle of modern life. It will be a more distant cry twenty-five years hence, but let us hope and believe that the same fine type of man will trod our campus then as now and forever. 1 1 ,L.J, 8' 1 n Y . , Q 2 . , i f . E Ql l gfvxsfg I 1 ' T

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