University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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NIMBLE pinsetler shoves follcn pins into rack ot Union boiling lones in the boscment of Coffmon union. Bowling alleys ore only one of myriad rccreotionol facilities provided for the student body. Here oil ospccts of life ore provided for. PENSIVE, lone mole rests at bolcony roil overlooking main ballroom ot Stardust donee, one of U's massive functions. Crowds jammed floor for Ellington. 7

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IBM, ONE of mony used by the Administrotion, does quick shuffle through stack of IBM cords, each of which represents one student ot the U. Large student body mokes the use of these machines ond similar ones a necessity. introduction University is men plus machines You lind the University of Minnesota in these pages. You find more than 20,000 of vour fellow student}; or at least as many of them as wandered into camera range and were transfixed in an instant as part of this record of vear 1955-1956. Y ou find representatives of the thousands of faculty inemhers w ho shaped vour ideas and your philosophies, the men and women who rcallv are the University. You glimpse some of the other thousands of University employees who see that the massive organization keeps running, people like the glasshlowcr who turns out the intricate glass w ebs which the chemists use in their research. And you wonder “Is this thing grown too big. Ain I too small, too insignificant to matter to the University? Is this size a good thing? The answer is - growth is rite inevitable result of success —you arc insignificant only if you choose to he so — onl an organization as big as the University can offer you the variety of ideas and things which w ill permit you to become an individual. Only an organization of the University’s scope will enable you to leave the ranks of Majority man and become unique. Arnold Toynbee. the philosopher-historian w ho spoke at the University in November, 1955, talks in terms of civilizations. I le says that SOME lay the University ii imper-lonal. Perhaps, but within U hospital, life revolves about the birth of o child, healing of individuals. 6

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civilizations must have a challenge to become great, that onl in meeting a challenge does a society develop. I he analogs can be applied to the individual. At the University of Minnesota, you start out with the same breaks as the next person. You meet the same mass confusion at registration time, feel the same insignificance as you walk down the Mall w ith your fellow s. 11 you choose to retreat into a shell, you gain little. If you set out to subdue the University. to meet the challenge of its size and complexity, you become a bigger person than you were before. You become truly educated. And if you make use of the manifold opportunities which onh a great eit of learning like the University provides, make use of simps, laboratories, libraries, above all, the minds of your teachers, you have the greatest possible opportunit to become unique, to become that rare and wonderful thing, the highest development of a free society, an individual. PARADES, on integral pari of iho campus scene, usually include pretty girls. This float, scon on Washington avenue at Church street, is port of the E doy parade.