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

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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

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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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Page Th irly 1 w r ' 1 l Reared in lhe air Qf freedom, and schooled in the precepls of democracy this sturdy son of im- . i . . migran pioneers is an illuminating example of high American achieve- V ment.-Julius E. Olson. S ONE Who graduated almost forty years ago, a Word from me on the Wisconsin Spirit may seem out of place in view of the fact that in those days of small things the University consisted of only six buildings, inadequately equipped, and a student body of less than four hundred. And yet the spirit of which We are now all so justly proud was then as manifest as it is today. The truth is that the Spirit was born in those and the earlier days, born in the minds and hearts of teachers and students who were the pioneers or sons and daughters of pioneers who through great travail laid the foundations of a mighty state. Times Were hard, money scarce, and students were not of those Hwho had all the luxuries and some of the necessities of life but of those Who, as a general thing, had to struggle for the bare necessities. But one of the dominant forces which evoked and intensified the morale, the esprit de corps, or what we now call the Wisconsin Spirit grew out of the character, learning and personal influence of the late President Bascom and the professors of his day. Bricks and stones and a sightly place do not of themselves make a university, but men and Women of power and vision, gifted With enthusiasm to teach. ' To us of the former generation it is a matter of great joy that the present generation has not only preserved but greatly broadened and intensified the 'iWisconsin Spirit and opened up larger possibilities for victory in the expanding fields of human effortg that as of old so now and hereafter in what We undertake We have the confidence that fight and we will win this game ! Truly 'lthe spirit maketh alive. I