University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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'gmw ' 'H FROM THE LIFE OE THIS UNIVERSITY H E manner in which men learn changes little with time, the place in which they learn is ever the same. For a university, Wrote Cardinal Newman, is a school of knowledge of every kind consisting of teachers and learners from every quarter: it is a place to which a thousand schools make contributionp in which the intellect may safely range and speculate, sure to find its equal in some antagonist activity and its judge in the tribunal of truth. The general principles of any study you may learn at home but the color, the tone, the :ry ,.,: l

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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