University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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vou found it to be friendlv. Thev told . you that your degree would be an as- sembly line product but you remember the time your favorite prof took a half hour after class to clarify Lucretius ' belief in the swerving atoms. They said you wouldn ' t have any time to play but you remember the nights you spent singing College Days and the afternoons you spent at the matinee. You remember your first few months at college . . . how Bohemian you felt staying up late to drink innumerable cups of black coffee while settling the fate of the world. And you think back on the last few months . . . how different you felt . . . com- pletely at home at Michigan. And maybe you ' re sorry about something. Maybe you ' re sorry that you didn ' t join the jazz club or the modern poetry club or run for Student Legislature. Maybe you ' re sorry you didn ' t do these things, but you ' re not sorry you came to Michigan. As you stand on the Diagonal and watch the sun slide down behind the Romance Language Building making patterns on the June grass, you get nostalgic about the old place , where so much of your living has been concentrated. You be- come filled with a pride that goes beyond the pasting of stickers on your luggage and showing the Law Quadrangle to friends from home. It ' s to you we ded- icate this book hoping that some time you can leaf through these pages and say, 1950 was a good year at Michigan.