University of Massachusetts Lowell - Sojourn / Knoll Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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LOWELL STATE COLLEGE THE KNOLL 1973 DEDICATION Consciousness August 13, 1838. If with closed ears and eyes I consult consciousness for a moment, immediately are all walls and barriers dissipated, earth rolls from under me, and I float, by the impetus de- rived from the earth and the system, a subjective, heavily laden thought in the midst of an un- known and infinite sea, or else heave and swell like a vast ocean of thought without rock or headland, where are all riddles solved, all straight lines making their two ends to meet, eternity and space gambolling familiarly through my depths. I am from the beginning, knowing no end, no aim. No sun illumines me, for I dissolve all lesser lights in my own intenser and steadier light. I am a restful kernel in the magazine of the universe. Henry David Thoreau (selected from his journal) If the purpose of education is to render the learner more human, then Dr. Liggera has suc- ceeded as a teacher. In his class, I first learned the relationship between gambolling con- sciousness and education; I learned when to sep- arate the bound text and the unbound life— and when to relate them. And cultivated within me was the talent to discern between humanity and pretense. Thus, I dedicate the Knoll, 1973, to Dr. Joseph Liggera. Robert J. Kanellas Editor