University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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To speak of a giant pattern, set and unchangeable, is to deny the dynamic character of the school. In total, the many people here present a face to the world. When you came here, you added to and changed the nature of the pattern. When you leave, something of yourself will have rubbed off; you will have left something that is of permanence, even within the ever-moving flux and change of the pattern. For each person, moreover, the pattern is different. You see the entirety through the eyes of your mind. For you, all the elements there but they are in different emphasis. are

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You are still in the midst of things here. You do not have the full perspective of what has happened. You know that in the years between the time you first registered as a freshman and first walked through the Commons Room and today, you have been changed. But you do not yet realize the immensity of it. You have developed warm familiarity with the University. You know where the elevators stop; what the walls look like under the plaster; where the pencil sharpener is; which professors check attendance and which do not. These things are of you; the habits of your speech, the manner of your actions, the fiber of your thoughts, all will

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One speaks of college spirit as though it were something into which the student must be fitted. By now, you are aware that it is you who makes the spirit what it is, that you have moved rather than been moved by it. You are now In the midst of all things moving. You cannot stop to ask what is happening around you, for you are a part of it. There is no mirror by which you may see the totality. Yet when the time comes and you may look back upon all of this, you will have been happy for it, and you will have deemed the ends worth the effort.