University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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TWO MEMOIRS of the Engineering faculty itudy detail of the new jet plane prevented to the University by Wold-Chamberlain airport ond the air nationol guard. Oue to larger size and more extensive facilities, the University is able to provide a wide voriety of academic experience. But nor all of life at the imivcrsitN is a challenge. There arc moments of quiet and of beaut) even in the midst of great Buildings. I here are moment of solitude, late at night, when the individual can relax, can stop a moment to think hack and integrate the past with the future which is everpresent. For at a great university, the past and the future are almost living things. In the library across the Mall and in the minds of the teachers, the students can learn to meet the men who made the world of today; the scientists, the fanatics. the heroes and the men of business w ho created the present. All around the students arc being horn the forces which will shape the future. Students who may. someday, create a great dam, a space ship, a mightv cathedral, a theory which will enable man and man to live together on the face of the earth in peace. So. in a real sense, a walk down the Mall, in the snowy night, is a long, long trip. A trip from past to present to future. 11

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THE MALL, center of campus ha many mood , bustling and noisy os in the daylight hours, or quiot and serene, as we see it now. EVEN STATE institutions cost money now, olthough toxes toko care of a largo share of the expenses. Coed waits policntly while hor father sign chock.

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WEARINESS from long wails in many lines shows ils effects on coed's face os she woils in a patient stupor in the administration building for her program to be stamped. JUST PRIOR to the opening of the meeting, two regents discuss with vigor a problem, possibly relating to the enrollment. 12