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

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CONTENTS OF BOOK Activities It Must Here Be Recorded..........................................................150 Publications...................................................................157 Forensics, Dramatics, Music.......................................................167 Government........................................................................179 Wisconsin Women...................................................................184 Women's Athletics.................................................................186 Badger Beauties...................................................................193 Occasions.........................................................................199 The Military......................................................................215 Athletics.........................................................................221 Photofiend........................................................................257 Organizations It Must Here Be Recorded Honorary............. Social Sororities . . . Social Fraternities . . Professional Groups . Dormitories .... 264 266 281 305 337 357 Advertisements.................................................................3 5 Index..........................................................................380

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WISCONSIN—an educational institution with magnitude of size and purpose, a cradle of endeavor, a monument to hopes realized, and an incentive to a greater life. It is this Wisconsin, multiple-sided and many-minded, where purpose and plan mingle with heedlessness of future care and worry, where exuberant youth meets prevocative thought, that is proffered. Not in disparagement, nor with an idealistic approach, but Wisconsin as we believe it to exist. In just what way may an enterprise of life and learning be best presented to those who would know the truth of it? What form of presentation is there that will adequately conjure a concept of the university as it really is, in the minds of those who read? A cross-section of the school, one year's life and interests pictorially and factually detailed, seems entirely insufficient to transcribe Wisconsin into the minds of those who would know. University life, because of its intricate trends, motives, intents, and purposes, cannot be segregated in set and bounded lengths of time and space. The incidents and happenings of this year, and every other year are but links that gradually crystalize and form the great and extensive chain which is University life. An adequate portrayal of the University demands realization of the existence of many such intertwining strands. It necessitates full realization of the past events, and the purposes of the future, that the present may be intelligently depicted. The assumption of this viewpoint as opposed to that holding a mere cross-sectioning of the University life and affairs, adequate is vital to such a showing. Facts of the current year are of prime importance to the portrayal of Wisconsin as it exists. The Badger, as the yearbook of the University, must concern itself with the events and incidents of the year which creates it. Record must be made of the calendar year that those who have lived it may remember, and those who follow may learn. But facts alone may be interpreted in many ways. The identical occurrences may free or condemn; history is replete with such instances. Facts in themselves will not adequately present the University to those who wish to learn of it. Something more than fact is required to fulfill the formula of an adequate presentation. The 1933 Badger holds interpretation of facts to be the essential element necessary to a complete and rounded reproduction of University life and interests. Interpretation, not individualistic, but from an open-minded student group with faculty conference and all possible information on which to base its conclusions. Wisconsin, as seen by student and faculty, and interpreted upon the triple bases of common sense, historical background, and future purpose, is here presented to he who would read.