University of Santa Clara - Redwood Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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Every college and university has pride in its past — and the deeper into the soil of time its roots penetrate, the greater a university ' s pride. It is proud it has stood, that it has a time — not so mush that it ' s beard is long, but proud it has stood, proud it has endured. For, to have endured, the university must have been able to meet the challenges of its time, to meet the challenge of time. The University of Santa Clara is obviously rooted in the past. Tile roofs have their red and broun strength in the bright days of autumn, and the old adobe walls and buildings afford their shelter from winter ' s wind- whipped rains. Angelus clangs from veteran bells daily cross the campus and the quiet softness of spring ivisteria leaps quickly to some country in the heart. And yet, as subtle as the breeze that smooths from northwest to southeast in late autumn afternoons, is Santa Clara ' s foundation in a spirit which has fostered and engendered it. In glotving terms, it is The Spanish Tradition — Santa Clara, the Mis- sion University. But in hard reality it is the drive and determination of individual men possessed with a will to accomplish that has moved Santa Clara forward from a good place to fish for trout to a twentieth century university with a twentieth century mission. The spirit of Santa Clara is in the tireless funipero Serra who ignited the building of the California mis- sions, of Robert Montgomery to make the first manned flight, and more recently, of the current University President ' s decision to incorporate co- education in the Santa Clara picture. The new energy of Santa Clara is in its energetic men, not the least of whom is . . .

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