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

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Bikes and Books Since bicycles are indispensable, each spring students must grapple with then to locate serial numbers needed in procuring the required license. Bookstore mob scenes usher in each new semester. Emerging exhausted, the student is still confronted with the task of finding lime to wade through the stack of texts. Students push and pedal blindly down the Diag at eight: Half awake, half aborbed in the frantic pursuit Of a dream preceding the alarm clock ' s jangle. They blink sleepy good mornings through the misty haze As they stumble hurriedly down the straight and narrow path Leading to an eight o ' clock that has been cut too often. Although the cement seethes with a montage of confusion, The oppressive silence is broken only by hurried footsteps And the measured tick-click of bicycle chains. The hands of the tower clock wield a magic wand; The crowd disperses, leaving the stragglers behind. Classroom doors slam, shutting out that other world. Professors clear the coffee from their throats; The scratch of pens is the clarion of a return to routine. Now the diag is only an empty sidewalk again, Stretched out flat, like its dogs, to catch the sun; And the buildings, crouching at its outermost end, Settle down to meditate on the knowledge clasped within. The clock chimes; doors burst open: humanity streams forth. Bustling, chattering, shouting the crowd is back. No longer lonely, the diag wears a sunny, cement smile.

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thirty miles from the ordered bluster of industry. Closer still to the cool, majestic forests And the dusty fields of the farm-cut Middle West, The University stands serene and sovereign. Here moccasin-trod footpath and rutted pioneer roads, Leading from the waters of the inland seas, converged. Now man speeds on smoother roads brain-born marvels Rushing headlong down the superhighways to success. Still he stumbles, needing a guidepost to point the way. Like a helpful goddess, the University in this guide, Pointing out the paths of progress to the perceptive, And pushing the ambitious a little farther on their way. This is the arbored haven of culture and technology; The roads of past, present and future, tangled together; The lamp lighting the way to wisdom; The Goddess of the Inland Seas. J d d d d d d d an 17

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