University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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The 19 3 1 OWL VOLUME XXVI Issued For the First Time as a Senior Class Publication of The University of Pittsburgh Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-one

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Copyright 1931 Charles A. Sf.idle Chairman Florence L. Li; man Editor-in-chief Harold K. Price Business Manager | Pact Two ]'

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 { THE NINETEEN THIRTY-ONE OWI. ]■ F () R E W C) R D In building THE 1931 OWL, three elements have molded and determined its structure : beauty, simplicity, and the presentation of a true record of the year’s activity. From cathedrals of the Dark Ages, we have taken our art motif. As the Medieval cathedral epitomized in stone all the learning, all the science, all the culture of the age. so we have symbolically attempted, hy liorrowing parts of these buildings, to gather this knowledge not as in a 1 ook, hut painted on the cathedral windows, on the jxirtals. on the Capitols, and high upon the buttresses and towers. This we Itelieve our own cathedral represents to a greater degree, for it is a structure dedicated to Learning—built upon lieauty. With such an art theme, which has sUmmI the test of centuries, we feel that synthetic adornment would Ik- misplaced. Thus our book substitutes the classical margin for the traditional boarder. ( ther landmarks of the conventional year lnmk have given way to a simplicity which is not new. but old. THE 1931 OWL is divided into four sections Fall. Winter, Spring. Summer. The seasons, sulnlivided into months. Such a plan was followed for the purjiosc of entering each event and each activity following its chronology on the university calendar. Compromises were made; they were cx| cdient, and we do not ajKilogize. All we ask is that this lunik preserves for you. individually, that which represents your happiest associations on the campus and that ten. thirty, fifty years from June 10. 1931. you will blow the dust from the Owl’s cover and again climb the steps—steps deceitful in winter, bordered with forsythia in spring. ( Page Four