University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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llfiscorzsilr is proud rd' her cilizen and rzulfmr, Miss Zona Gale, and rr'- joices in the facl that her lalenls and shvmprllhy have been erzlisledfol' lhe common good. Governor John J. Bla im: ELL adjusted social relations, taste, and even the general virtues are more or less crude unless they are practised with a certain Other Look, a Seeing-through them. A recognition that there is in these a literal loveliness and meaning which may be divined and usually is not divined. That the Hve senses have, so to say, extensions which may be used here and now. This extension of faculty has always been a power of the artistg and the fact that nearly everyone is now a poet, open or secret. merely means that the perception of the race is being heightened to discern that which we used to call hidden. . Usually in youth this awareness is ready to be invited and is'either deepened or thwarted by school and university. These may train this divination or make it ashamed to be heard. To many, a university is a place where they have dreamed new things rather than a place where they have learned old things. I believe this to be the highest praise, and I am one of those who is chiefly grateful to the University of Wisconsin for incalculably multiplying the sense of the wonder and beauty of the inner aspect of living. If I were to try to dehne that for which I am specifically most grateful to the Uni- versity it would be those rare days on which the teacher turned from everything in hand and gave to the class an hour of talk compact of the richness of experience and conclusions which were his. . stef.. Page T enly-Eighl

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Berlon Braley is a poet of human nalzzre. He is an aplimisl whose lane- ful message is a helping hand. He gives color andpulse lo the common- place, but oflen he rises lo nobilily of lhoughl and 1 expression.-Aaron M. Braylon. I I e rim HAT has NVisconsin Spirit meant to me? Speaking in general, I do not know. But there are one or two particulars in which that spirit has had, I think, a lasting effect on my life. I gained a belief in democracy, at Wisconsin, and I learned not to take myself too seriously-an attitude which is a concomitant of democracy. For if you don't take yourself too seriously you can't successfully be a snob. These things are not in the curriculum, at least they were not when I Went to college, but they were in the very atmosphere about me for four years. And I've found that most of the real values in life itself are 'coutside the curriculum. By which I mean that though a man's Work or a Woman's Work is highly important in the scheme of things, the thing of greatest importance is to be a broadminded and liberal-souled human being. To the undergraduate, I think Wisconsin Spirit should mean democracy, because democracy seems to me even more poignantly the hope of the World. Wisconsin Spirit should mean service, because service turns hope into realities. Wisconsin Spirit should mean sportsmanship, because true sportsmanship asks and gives a fair chance to every man's endeavor, and goes about its work and its play with a clean heart, a trained body and mind, and an indomitable soul. Wisconsin Spirit should mean idealism, because ultimately the only lasting things are done by those incorrigible idealists who look reality in the face and are no Whit daunted or denied. We Page Twenty Seven

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A un Ion of sc ien lijic genius Qlurned lo llzrill- mq use in lhe l Vorld lVurj I1 n rl fascinaiing personal qualilies, sels a mark Qf I'UI'l' dislinclion upon this son qf lVis- COIISfIl.-'.llII'7I!'S F. A. Pyre . N MY undergraduate days, Wisconsin Spirit meant the spirit of Everybody out - with his shoulder to the wheel. I believe it still means the same thing, and I hope it always will. t University life opens a new and interesting world to the Freshman entering Wiscon- sin, a world of new friendships, a world of new things to do. Pervading this world is an intense feeling of fellowship, of common interest, which stimulates activity. Activity in a common cause in turn stimulates fellowship. Wisconsin Spirit is the end product of that reaction. It is the spirit of fellowship in effort. Such a spirit cannot be vocalized. It must be lived. To be a Wisconsin student is to share Wisconsin's work and Wisconsin's play, and to each individual falls a portion of the responsibility for the success of Wisconsin undertakings. Willingness to take this responsibility and eagerness to work with others to secure success, give the measure of loyalty. . If fellowship in effort remain the guiding spirit of our undergraduate life, the Uni- versity will not fail in its mission. Modern life is a life of team play. Neither individf uals, states, nor nations can be independent in the direction of their actions. Each problem brings about differences of opinion, and whether these differences result in con- flict or co-operation depends on the spirit of treatment. The spirit of the University is carried by its graduates into the life of the State and the life of the Nation. May that spirit ever be the spirit of team play, the spirit that pro- duces co-operation and not conflict. May it ever be a true Wisconsin Spirit, the spirit of fellowship in effort. MW Page ly Nzne