University of Wyoming - WYO Yearbook (Laramie, WY)

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Our University y UR University — what is it? What does it mean to us? Can anyone really answer those questions, I wonder? Those two words, our Univers ly, have such deep significance for every student who has caught the spirit of U. W., such manifold meanings, that it would truly be hard to sum up the aggregate in one concise statement. But this much we know — the University of Wyoming represents oppor- tunity and fellowship to us. On these two words we might base our regard for good old U. W. The University of Wyoming is small, but is its smallness a disadvantage? Emphat- ically no, we answer. Because it is small, perhaps, opportunity and fellowship are the greater. One may feel and manifest his individuality in such an institution — he need not think of himself as one very small, inconsequential atom in a huge mass of humanity. He is known wherever he goes on the campus — his individuality is recognized and respected. He expects — and rightly — a certain amount of personal attention from the members of the faculty under whom he works, and from that attention he reaps big profits. Few are the students in our University who are not active in some form of college activity. And when one investigates, how small a number in large institutions have an opportunity to enter into college affairs. A few are in the activities of such institutions; the great majority are never introduced to that side of college life — a side which, however often considered but a side issue, forms nevertheless a big and important part of college training — a side not to be neglected or forgotten. The University of Wyoming fosters a feeling of fellowship to be excelled in no similar institution. It has not grown to that rather unwieldy size where students can go through four years of college without knowing each other or without ever having come in personal contact with their faculty. We are all good friends together — students and faculty. Each is interested and sympathetic with the other — because each knows and un- derstands something of the other ' s character, his ability, his disappointments, and his aspirations. Instead of the members of a particular sorority or fraternity knowing their own group and no other, they are friends with every student on the campus. We have realized in great measure the true meaning of democracy — that word that is so significant in the world today. The University of Wyoming offers opportunities for the young man or young woman that are equal to those offered by almost any institution of learning in the country. It is a University to be proud of — and to support with our loyalty and our love. It is our University!