University of Wyoming - WYO Yearbook (Laramie, WY)

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1 7 T ho o W%f Editor-in-Chief Seymour S. Sharp Associate Editor Frances Fowler Business Manager Alfred Williams Advertising Manager.... James Davis Assistant Manager Donald Clearwaters Engravings Ernest Hitchcock Athletics Neil Rogers Illustrations Eda Laughlin Jokes Dorman Bennitt Evelyn Sturgeon Colleges and Departments Lena Brooks Mavis Smith Mabel Eby Classes Eugenia Neer Ella Lyle Organizations Edna King Esther Johnson College Life and Society... Mary Hollenback Janie Aber

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T h e. If I Vere Entering College A S I look backward over the years since my graduation from college and note the many changes in subjects and methods of presenting them, I ask myself, What would be my attitude toward studies and college life, if I could be permitted to enter a Freshman class next fall in some college or university? Among the many things I might wish to accomplish, I should earnestly endeavor to do the following: ( I ) Choose that college Tvhich best met my ideal. For mv undergraduate work, I should prefer a small college, where there would be opportunity in all of the classes for intimate social relation between student and professor. I should wish to attend a college where hard work was required, where scholarship was the motto, with strong intellectual men on the faculty, with properly equipped library and laboratories. I should prefer a college with high ideals in personal, community and moral life. I should want my professors to be recognized scholars in their several departments, endowed with enough force of character to win and keep my esteem. (2) Form correct habits of study. I should so dispose of my time as to work and play and sleep by schedule, so far as possible. I should strive to concentrate my mind, with all its faculties, on the study for the hour, never allowing it to wander off into day- dreams, realizing that incapacity for close attention to a subject squanders time, weakens the will, and foredooms to failure in life. I should be satisfied with nothing less than a mastery of the subject, endeavoring to assimilate the thoughts of the author and pro- fessor so that they would become part of my own mind, ready at hand to be used whenever occasions should require. I should join the debating club, and through its help endeavor to become a ready and fluent speaker. I might, perhaps, become a member of the musical and dramatic clubs, but not to the neglect of my studies. (3) Talfe plenty of Tvholesome exercise. I should join all the athletic teams I could possibly make, practice faithfully, and encourage my team-mates to their best endeavor; I should enter every game with the expectation of winning, but determined that if I should lose to lose like a true sportsman. I would avoid all late hours at social functions, if possible; abstain from the use of tobacco and alcohol in all their forms; endeavor to take all my exercise in the open air, and sleep eight hours in a well-ventilated room. (4) Choose my course of study with great care. If I had plenty of time and means at my disposal, I should prefer to devote the first two years of my college course to laying a broad foundation of liberal culture. At the beginning of my third year I should wish to specialize along those line which would lead to some knowledge of my chosen profession. At the end of my fourth year, I should endeavor to attend that university which had the best reputation and offered the greatest facility along the line of my life work. At this higher institution I would spend four years in diligent study and original research. Thus equipped, I should expect to enter upon my profession with pleasure, confidence, and success. Charles Bascom Ridgaway.

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TH.e- W f Tkc Editor ' s Page E, the Staff of The Wyo ' 15, are the heirs of our predecessors, and hereby acknowledge our indebtedness to them. The standard they Whave set we have endeavored to carry to greater heights. As to how far we have succeeded, we leave you as judges. As a result of our labors, we deliver this Annual to you, hoping that it will keep fresh the memories of the present year. We are conscious that it is not complete ; we know that it contains errors and omissions; we feel that we have failed in some things. But if you think that the produc- tion of a perfect Annual is a task easy of accomplishment, just try it and you will perhaps change your opinion. We desire to acknowledge the invaluable assistance we have received from persons not connected with the staff. We are especially grateful to Miss Eugenia Federle, Mr. Garrett Price, Mr. Ralph McCullough, and Mr. George Flagg for their artistic sketches and designs, which have added materially to the appearance of our book ; to Dr. Hebard, for her assistance in keeping a complete record of school events occurring during the past year. Our thanks are due also to Dr. A. C. Boyle, who has so generously given of his time and work in the taking and finishing of numerous pictures; and to all others who have as- sisted us by donating photographs, and by valuable suggestions during the course of the work, we desire to express our feeling of indebtedness. The Editor. u