University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

Page 10 text:

WITHIN THESE WALLS echo and re-echo the voices ot those who en- ter as college boys and girls, but leave as uni- versity men and wom- en. Here about this campus live the pleas- ant scenes ot that strange change - that magic transformation in which adolescence is outgrown, maturity fore- shadowed, and adult character formed. f!! g!4 kfvivcivad

Page 9 text:

air, the life which makes it live fr-you must catch all this from those in whom it lives. This statement, having timelessness, applies in like manner to our University of Oklahoma as it did to the centers of learnf ing of an earlier day, the culture and the accumulated knowl- edge ot over two thousand years have come down to us through successive schools of Athens, Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge to Harvard and our modern state universities. Yet the living man and the living voice still embody the greatest fount of wisdom. As late as the beginning of the l9th century only the schol- arlyfminded sought a college course. Today's university aff fords a student entry into any area of study and equips him to travel far along the intellectual avenue of his choice. Psychologists tell us that the highest success a man ever achieves is no greater than the dreams of his youth. Thus you may read into this record the faintly sketched outline of future mountain-top accomplishments: for the l937 SOONEH brings you life on a western campus-a life of longings and ambif tions, raptures and regrets, disappointments and ecstasies that fill the hours spent in youthful pursuit of university experience. lt is a cross section of student life in all its fleeting moods and manners, tastes and opinionsf-a sort of moving picture, cape turing moments of l936f37 and reducing them to the printed but unexpurgated page. To that end the book is designed to be a plain and simple story, lighted here and there by information for readers who wish to know, imagination for those who wish to dream, and pleasure for all who wish to cherish the moments in which life found its strangely subtle beginnings. Zigi ,if

Page 11 text:

7 WL NATURE SMILES ond young tove often hos its doty, the beouf ties ot ort ond ttteroture ore thereby enhonood. George Gtssinq sotot ot Henry Rye-Croft, Ho had ever been much inf tluenced by the mood ot the sky ond the prof oession ot the year. And the borrd ot Avon found HTOUQUQS in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, ond good in everything.