University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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FOREWORD T HAS been the traditional endeavor of the Owl to record the separate activities of the year and to fuse them into an entity: to recapture and crystallize the diffused spirit of the University as it exhibits itself in the varied phases of University lifeg and to add, perhaps, a touch of lustre to events which too soon become but recollections. To these aims the 1937 Owl adds another: to commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University by a connotative, appre- ciative treatment of its record. There is no necessity here for an exhaustive or detailed history: others have accom- plished that. The editors hope to present a general delineation of-and thus to kindle an interest in-the glorious past of the University.

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DEDICATICJN AND YE SHALL REAP THE BENEFIT TI-IEREOF . . OO often those who clear the path for progress are not here to enjoy that to which they have given life, and those who benefit have not their strife to look back upon. It is because we realize this that we dedicate the 1937 Owl to the courageous and visionary founders of the University and to those countless, who, for the past one hundred and fifty years, have contributed to the development and welfare of the University. The spirit of the founders that took root in the single log cabin of 1787 is still with us. It has grown through the years, and today it finds new expression in the Cathedral of Learning, an enduring symbol of the courage and spirit and of the endless groping upward that have been so much a part of Pittsburgh. No community can give to its people a full life .without a complete cultural development. The greatest achievement comes only when, through systematic effort, we keep before us the best that is in our minds and hearts. This orderly enlightenment-the way to a more com- plete life-has been the function of the University. Pitt's prime service is to its community. Pitt's campus is Western Pennsylvania. We are eternally grateful to those who saw the need and strove in its fulfillment. They have sown, and we have reaped.

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