University of Wisconsin Superior - Gitche Gumee Yearbook (Superior, WI)

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1 r Jtfommtrft The hardy immigrants who braved the “forest primeval of the country surrounding Gitchc Gun ee were possessed of a strange courage and a unique adventurous spirit. It was through their daring that it was possible to build our institution of higher learning. And throughout this book, which is intended to preserve memories of the life at that college during the year 1928-29, runs a theme in honor of the ancestors of those people who carried the “burden of the frontier” into the Northwest—the vikings, those sturdy adventurers of the Nordic North, those mighty sailors who were the first to sight American shores. In them lived the same spirit that is embodied in this school, a love for progress, a desire to lift man back into that greatest of real adventures—life.

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 Earth hath not anything to show more fair; Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty.” —William Wordsworth.