University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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With the return, contrast Fall was a fresh and cxcitiiiL; qLiaiicr. h was a c]uartLT ot change, h began in sunshine ant! green, passed through clear, sharp autumn days and closed in soggy, wet leaves and snciw. h began wiiii strange new laces and classes and ended with tamiliiirity. It began with cotton shirts and dresses and ended with storincoais .uid llannels. It was the t]uarter of tootli.ill S,iliirda s and Iralhc jams. Fall marked a strangclv welcome return. .-K return to pressure, to responsible work, to inlorm.ilion-hlled books and late-burning lights, to old iricnds — a return to the life which has occupied most ot us tor ihree-toiuihs ot every year as far back as we can lemember. Past 22

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Campus life )tudent life on the Minnesota campus encompasses broad areas of participation and activity. You want to know how- broad? Begin with getting a hopped up, well supervised taste of University life at Welcome week, or parking your car in a 25 cents the first hour, 5 cents each additional hour lot, or decorating a house for Homecoming, or trudging through sloppy, melting snow on the Mall, or stutlying with your girl in one of the campus libraries. Continue through having coffee in the noisy, clinking Union, or sitting alone in a huge, crowded lecture class, or running for all-University congress, or typing into the night in a lonely, dark, tlcserted publications office, or playing an instrument in the University band, or being caught up by that exciting college spirit at a football game, or waiting in line to register at the Ad building, or appearing in a hot, dusty Campus Carni chorus line, or graduating in June. Even then you ' ve hardly scratched the surface. These are the tangibles, the organized activities in which a stu- dent finds his place, identifies himself and becomes a part of this immense University. But in these you find only a part of student life. It is other things, less tangible. It is an indefinable growth and maturation, a collection of extra-curricular un- derstanding, insight, strength and poise.

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As always, the quarter was announced, first by straggling, subdued lines of orientees, then more forcibly by their en masse. Welcome week appearance, which meant banner- waving, traffic-jamming hordes. But it was a good week, for it meant the beginning of University careers for another class. When the hordes dispersed and the freshmen became individuals again, they were a little more adjusted to this monstrous University, a little less awed by it all. When classes began students detoured around workmen on either side of the Mall. They were busy repairing steps and constructing a pair of large and ugly $10,000 concrete flower pots. The dedication of a vastly different structure, the May j Memorial medical center, also took place fall c]uar- ter. It culminated 11 years of effort. Most popular convocation came early in the quarter when Doc Evans wandered down from Williams , playing When The Saints Go Marching In, and wowed a Northrop audi- ence with one of his jazz concerts. But eventually the newness and excitement of return ■wore off, and students settled into a routine existence, (jreeks, independents and commuters alike attended classes, scribbled mcomprehensible lecture notes, joined sundry clubs and returned home, only to repeat the performance many times, day in and day out, throughout the quarter. FbU Quarter