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

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fine Luhaf it N T A N S » » If this BADGER can serve ds a medns to show you the underlying and intang- ible something which makes us proud to be called Wisconsin men and women, then it shall have served its purpose. WILLIAM O. BEERS March 21, 1937

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BOOK.... 1 n the publication of this 1937 BADGER we are ' not trying to carry on some dim tradition conceived in the past; we have not busied ourselves with the preparation of a theme or motif; . . . instead vv e have tried to picture Wisconsin to ourselves and you as we have known it. We hope that in the days to come it v ill serve as a reminder of the mad rush up the hill to an eight o clock on a January morning, the thrills of last minute conquests at Camp Randall, the picnics and walks along the lake when spring has chased the ice out, and the beautiful sunsets over Picnic Point. » » During our four years we have all faced our problems: . . . some financial, some scholastic, others of a purely personal nature. We have been forced to swallow our pride as we faced a stack of dirty dishes to which there seemed no end, or have tried to read Hamlet while rocking a two-year-old to sleep. We have had that yearning for knowledge which had to be satisfied regardless of personal deprivation or sac- rifice. But we have also learned that there are other people in the world, and that we have to consider them as much as ourselves ... in spite of background, financial status, or per- sonality. We have all been given equal rights in this institu- tion, and as a result, we may have LIVED to LEARN, but also, and far more important we have LEARNED to LIVE.

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The townsmen ' s capital afar, The town below, the trees that face In solid line the much tramped hill Appear through fluted col- umns space.