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

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Daughler of lhe Iowa 5 , iw prairiesg maulder of ?j'. ,,,v ,, public opinion. on vital 'IQ issuesg wriler of charm- . . ing slories: aulhor Qf ag? books lhal have delighled multitudes of people and Q-:f Q of arficles on lopics qf ' great social impol-lance: ediloli ofa dislinguished and mfluenlial journal. -NI. Vincent O'Shca. OU ask me what the Wisconsin Spirit has meant to me, what it ought to mean to the undergraduate. What a diflicult question! For nearly all the things that loom as immensely important in student days become immensely and immediate- ly unimportant in after life! Nobody cares a great deal in the great competitive world whether or not you are college bred. No editor, if you are asking him to buy a story you have written, asks you whether you are from Wisconsin or Harvard or Northwestern. Yet. the set of stand- ards that were given you when you went to college will make or mar you in your life career. And these standards, these values, were formed quite unconsciously during your four years on the campus. While you were torn with excitement over the possibility of your being elected to a Greek letter society, your inherent bent toward democracy or snobbery was being crystallized. While you were concentrating on how many or how few hours a week would win you your degree, your standards of work. of your service obligations to life, were being quietly evolved. While you were ,groaning under the weight of the collateral reading for History I or English Il or Economics III the standard of your cultural demands on the future was taking its fixed direction. And in the after years, when you have almost forgotten whether you are a B. L. or a B. S. or a B.A., an editor of THE BADGER asks you to say something about the Wisconsin Spirit and you realize that your angle toward life, your demands on life, your interpre- tation of life breed back to those four heedless, happy years on the campus at Madison. And you rise up and call those years the most blessed and important' of your life. Page Thu ly- Two

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V L Few sons of the Uni- versity have had so dis- tinguished a career as Dr. Paul S. Heinsch. As an author, in sub- jects relating to world politics, delegate to Pan- Americancan.gresses,am- bassador to China, and later as adviser of the Chinese government in ' ' America, he has well earned a lasting place in American history. -Burr W. Jones. N THINKING of old Wisconsin, memory reverts with special love to the men whose personalities as teachers impressed themselves most deeply on us. William F. Allen, the first leader in the modern development of Wisconsing Frederick Turner, whose eyes could say more than most men's oratoryg Charles Haskins, then a youthful prodigy of astonishing knowledge and memory powerg Richard T. Elyg William A. Scott, Alex- ander Kerrg Moses S. Slaughterg John B. Parkinson, and the Presidents Chamberlain and Adams, all left theirimpress. PresidentVan I-Iise I knew as a student,chiefly as aman of sci- ence, who was always ready to talk with us debaters about any question under the sun, social and economic, and from whom we always went away full of new ideas. The dearest memories cluster about the associates and activities of our everyday life. Athletics had not yet become so prominent in those days. We blew off all our surplus energy in shouting for debating teams and competing orators. The debating societies at that time were the real center of student life. But the greatest and most profound influence that we felt was that of the common- wealth Spirit of Wisconsin. Wherever I have gone in later life, I have been helped by the inspiration of the new life of a great commonwealth which became conscious of itself in those last years of the nineties. The broadening view of human relationships, the idea of the State as a big family, the devotion of the best talent therein to work for the general good, the testing of all rights by their just subservience to human welfare, these aims so clearly expressed in the Wisconsin Idea, helped me beyond words in facing the diffi- culties and responsibilities of an arduous time. I 44416 1 , Page Thi ty 0 e

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