University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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 Fortunate) v none have been imprisoned but many would have been willing to serve a term or two for a public expression of their thoughts. And it cannot be said that they have not been sincere in their convictions. Modernisms are slowly creeping in. Are there other Universities preparing for the Renaissance as we? Perhaps—but they are numbered. This is the beginning. There seems to be a new sort of culture which is not clearly understood. Ft docs not mean that we are so well equipped mentally that our pursuits outrank those of others but rather that we have developed leaders who have called our attention to changes that arc taking place. This is quite fortunate. Now. that we arc taken away from the influence of that leadership, let us remember. Trifles will return as ghosts in new apparel to haunt us and we will huddle close into ourselves in fear and. by the way. when you come to such a situation and find yourself so close to you. give yourself a critical oncc-over. You might find yourself not such a stupid person, after all. Hut that’s preaching. And it is four A. M. and the editor is tired. Perhaps he should retire. Perhaps— And that’s all there is to the Introduction.

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This Is The Introduction: 11K KE is n certain formula for Annual Introductions which implies the following thought: The Old Order must go; tilings must change. We cannot linger long in the glamor of college days. (How about 3college nights?) The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.” All of which reminds me of a certain joke the first line of which is, Who was that lady I seen you with last night? Thoughtless philosophers are a bore; so let us take up this matter by introducing something that we may be acquainted with. First. Ladies and Gentlemen, it gives me immense pleasure to introduce the Senior Class. Here we have something to be really optimistic over. The time has come to pass when a student can carry the American Mercury under his arm instead of the Atlantic Monthly for the purpose of conveying an intellectual impression. lie can be a successful politician without being a prizefighter. He can be acquainted with N'citzschc without being called a green-eyed cynic. He can give the psychoanalytic viewpoint of Freud or Jung without being .branded as evil-minded. He can call literary junk “Balderdash” without receiving a snicker for using such an expressive term. But most of all he can l e known as intelligent without having Phi Beta Kappa as his mortal goal. Hut note, let us be depressed for a moment. lie often alludes to pieces of art. whether good or bad. as being pretty pictures.” The conversation begins to lag when you refer to Beethoven, Chopin, Bizet or I.iszt. Anatolc France is probably as foreign as his name. And so on. But let us not be depressed for long because we are really speaking of a fortunate exception. This has been a year of triumph for the naughty little boys who have had an idea and have been fearless enough to let it be known. The writings of these have lieen quoted and commented upon all over these well-known United States.

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