University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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1921 ® — MeleterN—® J. H. AMES President . Page 5

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19Z| —MeletebN—® ®fje §?ear The forty-sixth year of our school approaches a close. Each passing year in the life of an institution appears very much as those that have gone before. Students come and students go. Each year a graduating class goes forth. Each year a body of new students is admitted to the institution. Changes in the personnel of the faculty are gradual. Campus and buildings present much the same appearance this year as last year. Ordinarily the administration of the school and the conduct of its work varies little from term to term. Is it true then that the year just closing is so like last year and the year before, and that these in turn are so similar to the many years that have gone before that we mistake when we speak definitely and positively of the year 1920-1921 as possessing any marked individuality? The life of our institution is complex. It is made up of the lives of six hundred individuals, from the smallest to the greatest and from the weakest to the strongest. The life of an institution is a reflex of the lives of the students and teachers who make it up. A school has a personality—a resultant of the personalities of the human elements comprised in its student and faculty body. The personality of the school changes as the years change. Each succeeding year brings to the institution hundreds of new personalities to be merged in a composite personality—the River Falls Normal School. The year has been marked by an earnestness of purpose in the labors to which teachers and students have jointly.assigned themselves. The quality of school work has been high. The year has been characterized by a high type of leadership in student organizations,—a leadership which has regarded service to the institution rather than personal advantage as its goal. . The Christian organizations of the school have exercised a marked influence upon the year. Under their leadership, students have been helped and inspired in the regular meetings of the organizations and through the messages brought to the school by special lecturers who have appeared under their auspices. The year has been characterized by keen competition in our athletic contests. A spirit of fair play and good sportsmanship has been marked in the large measure of success which has come to River Falls teams. In the field of debating our representatives have carried the institution to new and higher levels of success. The school spirit has been sound and wholesome. It has been free from narrowness and pettiness and has been characterized by a spirit of loyalty to the institution and a spirit of co-operation in all its enterprises. A spirit of courtesy and kindness has characterized our social relations, students and faculty. THE YEAR in an institution does not refer to a calendar unit; it signifies an epoch in the history of the institution, not a time period but a life epoch. | H. AMES, President. Page 4

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 9Z ® —MeletebK)—W C AITENTS Introduction 1- 10 Faculty 11- 20 Graduate Seniors 21- 23 Seniors 25- 54 High School Department 65- 71 Spring Short Course ... 72- 73 Agriculture Department 75- 82 Organizations 83-112 Athletics 113-140 Literary 145-152 Calendar 154-158 Page 6