University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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£]iiMiitiMiititiiiir IIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIMIIIMIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1I1I llllllllHIIMIIIIIIinMlllllllllllllllllinnMMMIIMIIhUlllllllllliniMIMIIIMIlHIHMIIIMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllinillllllllllUlllllnlllinlllllMllllllllMIII FOREWOl D X these underifraduate days we eagerly seek to look ahead over a score of years to conceive, unrolled before our eyes — Future Minnesota — magnificent and resplendent — a vast, symmetrical cani- ])us iif nohle pillars and classic architecture. We construct our plans and sketches, counting the years that stand between the realization of the Alin- nesota-to-be — when the plain, homely campus of the present is forgotten and buried beneath the wonder and grandeur vi the Xew. r.ut will our cam])us. our Minnesota of today, lie entirely forgotten when this architectural evolution is complete? Twenty years in the future, will not the class of 1923 cling to the dimming memories of the old order and find pleasure in returning in t hought to the Minnesota of the past? Then will the Gopher be taken down from the shelf that the familiar haunts and fleeting joys of long ago may flash their kalaedoscopic way acmss its pages. Stirring scenes on Northrop Field, ipiiet walks over the Knoll or along the river bank, and busy hoiu-s in the Daily Office will return again, whispering their story of half-forgotten triumphs, tragedies and joys. Loftv Campanelli. the stately sweep of the Mall, and a giant stadium will some day overshadow the crumbling old P. O., the embattled antiquity of the Armory, and the crooked walks and shaded byways. Yet, their dim memiiry will live and glow between the covers of past annuals. To perpetuate the Minnesota of today and to describe the vague future and greater University is the dual jiurpose of the 192. Gopher — another chapter in the life-storA of Minnesota. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiii iiiliiilllliiiiiiiiii liimiitiilliil iiiititiiiiiiiNiii 1 1 1 1,111,,, ,-=i

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