University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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Beyond time, somewhere, has passed another year. Into the past has gone everything but memory of all that happened during the hours, the weeks, the months of study and activities that comprised the period now ending. And for all of us, students of Oshkosh State Teachers College, a year of remembrances has become an integral part of our lives. Just as incidents which occurred in classrooms will not depart from us forgotten, so scenes of the campus, and all we associate with them, will remain forever a part of us. Who among us has not been enough alive to thrill to the sight of the leaves, changing orange and vermilion in the enchanting fall, and later dying away and drifting to the earth, there to give life again? Who has not received poignant vigor from the restless wind swirling across the grass and through the trees to blow its strength into our faces? And, then, the artistic wonders of Wisconsin winter, weaving its glistening snow into a shimmering mantle of purity across our fruitful land. All these transformations have occurred before us, and we have been a living entity within them, progressing with our studies into the season of spring, when the trees become a symphony of profundity again, and the sky becomes an unfathomable eternity of glorious tribute to the world in which we live and work and seek the happiness God has made so plentiful. Unless we have lost the power to see, unless we have ceased to breathe deeply without minds, we cannot help but feel awe and wonder that all this magnificence, often elusively absent in the pages of textbooks, is nevertheless an intrinsic whole of our education.