University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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The University of Minnesota A PLACE TO BECOME There are two sides to education: knowledge and understanding; the what and the why of things. The University offers you the outer shell of knowledge, hut only by your own efforts can you penetrate this shell of historical or theoretical facts and discover the deeper realm of understanding. Knowledge can be gained from external sources— the classroom, a book, another individual. But you cannot contact understanding so readily. It must be discovered in the multitude of situations and people you meet during your experience of day-to-day living. You will find it to be a gradual process of becoming aware of the abundant nature of man and yourself, as well as of the gross ignorances which so often pervade man’s actions. You will find understanding to be the most important need of men. You will discover that it is the neglect of this need that is the source of the ignorance which makes man’s world so often tragic. And, as you gain understanding, you will come to know that the tragedy of man is his own doing, and that it can be undone. As philosophical as this may sound, it is not just a distant, abstract concern. Your stay at the University assures you of a world of knowledge. But, if you are to use this knowledge to undo the burden of errors that you inherit from the past, you will need to be also educated to the why of things. And do not kid yourself. You are the person who can initiate a better world: a better individual makes a better community. It is up to you to become that better individual, thus making your presence add to rather th n subtract from the progression of life. The 1967 Minnesota Gopher is an attempt to record you, the University student, in the act of becoming. Hopefully this record is complete and meaningful. 3 Mary Margaret Lenertz, Ed. sophomore.

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MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA 05001 4 Dear Students: I address you in that manner because I assume you to lie such from birth to death, with much of happiness and health thrown in for good measure. This is written with heartfelt warmth for the present President of tin University of Minnesota, 0. Meredith Wilson, and his family which 1 know is shared by the Board of Regents and by you. Whatever motivated you as individuals to come to the University of Minnesota I do not know, hut it obviously was to further your knowledge and to take advantage of whatever it offered in the field of your choice. It takes a great man to hold together a great faculty and to nurture all the various things that make up a growing institution so that its course may he uninterrupted in a calm and collected manner. All of these qualities are united in the man we so dearly love and respect and to whom we wish Godspeed ami good luck in his future endeavors, 0. Meredith Wilson. Sincerely, Clio JU»vO Vvyu o Charles W. Mayo, M.D. Chairman Board of Regents University of Minnesota FIMIIMMMMI iiiniiri iimu minimum imiiiifiiiijf Mimnmim initfimmii wmmiimr The West Hunk, right, nas realized during President O. Meredith Wilson's seven-year stay at the University.