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

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sily in the South. From a school of fewer than three thousand male students just before World War II. it has grown to a co-cducational institution of more than ten thousand students. Growth is evident everywhere. New buildings are going up in various locations to add to the value of a plant already worth over thirly-five million dollars. Faculty members are being added as enrollments increase. Parking spaces are being created to take care of a student body which drives more cars than any other student body in the country except one. It is interesting to note that more persons have been graduated from the University of Florida in the last seven years than in all the previous ninety-three. The University is a living institution. It is continuously in the process of growth, keeping abreast of cultural and scientific developments in a young and prosperous state. During 1953, intercollegiate athletic teams won eighty per cent of all contests in which they engaged. In debating. Florida teams were consistently among the best in the country. Student government at Florida enjoyed more freedom and wielded more power than at any other state school. Even television afforded a medium for the outlet of talent of University students. The Centennial Year was one in which to pause to review the great strides made in the | ast. But it was also a year to look forward to even greater strides to l e made in the future. It was a good year. In some ways it was a great year. In the pages that follow, the Seminole presents it to you. The year 1953 . . . the Centennial Year at the University of Florida. . . .

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A Although this copy of the 1953 Seminole is Iwing published more than a half year later than anticipated, it is one of those things to which the phrase “better late than never applies. This was the Centennial Year at the University of Florida and the happenings of that year an- fully reported in the pages that follow. The cover of this volume refers to a “yearbook”, and that is indeed descriptive of the contents. A full year of life on the campus unfolds, and while it will mean more to those students who have lived that year at Floridu. it should also mean a great deal even to those w ho have never seen the place “where the old ’Cators play. From it beginning a Fast Florida Seminary in Ocala one hundred years ago. the University of Florida at Gainesville has grown to liecomc the largest Univcr-

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 I CHAPTER O N E CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE the campus in 1953 7 colleges and closscs 49 beauty at Honda 193 the administration 14 military science 175 student leadership 206 Student government 23 military groups 182 1953 hall of fame 212 florida's centennial 30 research at Florida 186 special features 217 III J