University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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this great body of students and teachers. il So richly full of interests is this life that each of us may find here full outlet for his energies and scope for his individual talent, as well as needed training. Yet this diver ' sity is all the more reason for the love and loyalty which we bear our Alma Mater, for a bond of brotherhood in common effort which subordinates personal ambition and lesser affiliations to the great institution of which they are only parts. €1 To portray this spirit of mutual loyalty to each other and a cause, the illustrations of our opening and division pages are taken from one of its finest examples in history, coupled with scenes from our own student life. We hope you ' ll en ' joy the book as much as we have its making.

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T t I N T Co The prime function of the Cornhusker al ' ways is to record the personalities and events that make up the university year, to the end that in the years ' tO ' Come you may be able to recall them vividly and fully. To that end, we have worked hard to make this volume as complete and as graphic as possible. 41 But in the arrangement and presentation of its contents, it is also the privilege of a university yearbook to trans ' late them — to interpret the spirit, to show the trends. This is expressed in the art features of the book, and is called its theme. €[ Our idea is that Nebraska ' s most precious heritage from the past, her most zealously sought objective for the future, is the spirit of unity to animate the manysided life of

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( - ONt tOR. ALL i B Thus cried the Three Mus ' keteers of Dumas ' immortal novel, as they raHied to the defense of a wounded com- rade without regard for their own escape to safety. Good fortune or misfortune, what came to one of them was the concern and the lot of all of them; and what was for all of them came first with each of them. Yet it would have been impossible to gather a more diverse coterie. Their similarity ccMi- sisted solely of their impregnable unity. As a result, they wielded an influence and achieved a success far beyond their less ' than- a ' handful of numbers. !, So be it with the University of Nebras ' ka. So it has been in our glorious past. Our Alma Mater is known from Coast to Coast, far out of proportions to our age, our num ' H ri A NtB