University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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 BE QUIET, Ihe housemother will hear us. Furtive trips to the kitchen in the middle of the night provide o pleasurable break for those who burn the midnight oil. That ham they hod at supper will taste good with o cup of coffee and the brcod the cook wos saving for tomorrow's sock lunch carriers. BULL sessions aren't exclusive to the dorms on campus — here commuters hove one oround the counter in the Gopherelto lunchroom in tho Union bosemont. 9

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Introduction The life you live as a student is like no other you will ever experience. It is a life shaped to fit the academic situation, formed for only you and no one else. While you are a student, your actions are determined by the particular academic environment you put yourself into. You are one of more than 22,000 persons all engaged in the pursuit of some sort of education. The danger of losing your own identity in this mass of young humanity is partially overcome when you, along with hundreds of others, choose a prospective profession or vocation. For then you have narrowed down your general classification of “student” to a school or college of one major interest. Still the relationships between you and the others in this group are limited and far from personal. You occasionally may find that being on a campus of clubs, associations and governing boards is a hazard to the real purpose of your presence. Certainly the primary objective of the University is education. And though that objective may become secondary to you, you arc-forced to learn, merely because you are here. Hvcn your social life then is a result of the academic situation. And no matter how much joining you do, how exclusive the group, you live your own life as your academic situation demands of you. You are more serious if you are a grad, more social if you are a Greek, more civic minded if you are a commuter. Your life can never be duplicated, for it is yours alone to live. 8 EVERYBODY gels emotional at Saturday afternoon football gomes; it's contagious. And thousands of screaming fons really mako an uproar. SOMETIMES tho body demands its rest, in spite of repeated efforts of tho mind to stick to studies. And sometimes o student is simply too lazy to study, anyway.

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BOOKSTORE dorks almost go crazy during rush of tho first wook of the quarter; handling thousands of books for hundreds of closscs, and serving thousands of students is thoir almost impossible and insurmountable task as classos begin. GUEST speakers on eompus find rccoptive audience no matter whol their subject. There's bound to be somoonc interested. IT'S WORTH anything to gel one of the coveted two-digit tally numbers for an engineering student. Even sleoping oil night in a sleeping bag on the very hard ground in front of Main Engineering. Standing in line for reservations is still far less painful than wailing in line to tally, though.