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

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( ) C V ( )lllllUICcl be Bad.cr Lduo.- has sat down to h,s desk, po.haps on as fine a spnn, day as th.s. and has written ■ tor e.ord to the Badger. If he was a typ.cal ed.tor he probably hadn ' t done very much of t wnc.n, .n the book h.n.elf. He was nn.ch too busv getting seatn,g l.ts for p.cturcs, n n ut lavouts, keep,ng h.s assistants pac.fied, and do.ng ail the thousand other details tha go to .hance. puhaps ,n h,s hfe t„.e, to set down .n print what Wisconsin really meant to h,m. And of ,o„rse. they d,d ,t v.,- d.fterently. For mstance, in 1917 Randolph Wadsworth sTint ha ' V ' ' ' ' ' ' ' -P-- ' «-e of W.sconsu. hfe and sp.nt, that u mav .mparc th.s sp,r,t of those who seek ,t, and that ,t may serve, in luer years Coxtrt r ' ' ° ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' P ' ' ' ° ' ' ' •• ■ ' h ' 1922 Badger Tl on : exst L :t:ru ' ' -d endeavored to po.nt out the fundamental mter-rehu.on w ex,sts between the Un.vers.ty and the State. In 1924 Ellis Fulton went back to source material Tbs book :s made out of YOU, he said, and afternoons on P.cn.c Pomt, and B.ll K.ekhof ' s oty moments m ,b; of the chnlls and conquests of last mmutes at Camp Randall and t tg Court, ot Benny Snow s snowflakes and Mendota when the moon .s high. . And so it goes Each has found somethmg at W.sconsm wh.ch m th,s, h,s one b:g moment he wants to crystalhze, to make permanent. It . that way w.th all of us Beneath the clas the cramn. g. the exams the rush up the h.ll for an e.ght o ' clock, we feel some h „ mor o h „ at ? ' . r d ' ' - ' r ' ' - ' ' - - ' P -° us unaware but ' , none th t T si t ,nd r T T ■■ P ' ' ' ' ' • ' - ' -- ' — o call u college SFMHt, and to work .t out cheenng at football games, but now that we have supposedly grown y about the good old days, about the death of college sp.nt. about our cynic.sm our m enahsm we feel .t none the less. The spirit of W.sconsm i. not dead. Nor, as ong aTtree -11 grow along t e W.llows, as the Cardinal keeps up .ts ed.tonal war w,th he R O T C W.scons.n can st.ll t.e Chicago, and spring comes along lake Mendota, .s .t apt to be g nted to the rest, but we too have tned within these pages to capture someth.ng of the real W h ve ' :: been iTft , T ' ' T ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' - ed. we have not been left unmolested on an island of make believe. The world has crept m on us weTve blc ' ' V ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' - ' ' ' ' ' ' - ' ' - P rhlt t ugh . i sportl h . V ' ' ■ ' - ' - f- I ' fe not with the po r e ™cf :nd . ' l ' ' - - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' -- ' - ' ° -- -y ' buc. ' h ugh AndTtTT ' h 77 ' -- ' ' - -h,ch to apply the ideals which Wisconsin fo w L ' ■ ' ' ' ' ' ' ° ' ' ™ ' l ' I - the h.ll at noon to be on t...e r work at some restaurant, who have tr.ed to study with a book .n one hand and a ba ; n .lals otgrbLTsrc ' -P themselves al.ve. can not be accused of b.ng .mpractica? ahsts, college-bred St. Georges hunt.ng .mag.nary dragons. We have gone through these four |3|

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|-L)ki: okM) years of supposedly cloistered life, working and studying, while we felt our civilization shake and tremble about us, know what life is all too well to treat it in any such high handed manner. Let us hope that the world, during these years of universal education, has learned its lessons at least as well as we have ours. A Badger is apt to be a rather conglomerate thing. It is so of necessity since the life it tries to depict is just as many faceted. I want to take this opportunity to thank all those who have contributed to make the book the book it is. Those people — students, faculty, alumm — who have either written for or worked on the book deserve whatever credit you choose to give Each of them has contributed from his talent and experience something of his appreciation ot Wisconsin. We hope that in this way you will see a more thorough and well rounded picture of what the University is doing and has done. Yearbooks have the habit of lapsing into picture books. That is part of their charm, and thev must always remain picture books to a certain extent. Certainly a Badger that was turned out minus any pictures would be lacking in vivid reminders of your co lege years and your memories would not be rich with that sudden torrent of recollections that onlv actual illustrations can give you. This Badger has tried to continue the policy of its predecessors in securing beautiful photography by the Steichens of Madison. We are all painfully aware that it is 1934. We look back on our high school annuals with their graduating sections and weak humor sections and wonder how they amused us The Badger is taking its swide with the modernistic and progressive yearbook editors of today w ho are dissatisfied with the old standards and determined that the tr..dition of college yearbooks shall not decline into senile depravity and the stage of just-another- campus-racket. Here is a book to read as well as to look at. Writers and figures of no mean ability, alumm and professors and students of the university, combine to present to you a book that aims to be more than a worm s eye view of campus scenes, to present to you within two cloth covers a picture of a year a Wisconsin in its reality and every-dayness and scholarship and play and events. It is a book that will not wear out. It will probably mean more to the graduating class ten years from now than It means this spring. As to the book itself, there is very little more need be said. When you read this it will be out of ouVh nds and into yours. We hope that we have caught, and that you too will see, something of the spirit of the real Wisconsin, something of its idealism, its youthfulness, its comedy, and its high seriousness. If we have done that then we have done enough. Next spring another young fellow will sit down, ,n this office, and will write ..bout the SrS -Tk rB d-rc 5v::idt=:l h- :t;; llt Thich makeTp Tour college ' years, a tradition which we know will, like the Badger, be continued year after year, bringing to Wisconsin new and greater glories. Perhaps we are making this sound like a nostalgic dream of Stardust. This is not intended as a sa es ta k Whether the book really amounts to anything or not is up to you. Somehow we have hn you, our judges. It is by no means a perfect book. It will suggest many of he h unts and the w Iks and the people you have seen on the campus, many of the years activities [4]