University of Idaho - Gem of the Mountains Yearbook (Moscow, ID)

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ce! 94 T V4 as S411 14 BY i ie j= a . | iB: oe fs VIEW NORTH FROM ADMINISTRATION RUILDING The University and Its Traditions Spits a comparatively young institution, many of our campus customs and habits lack that old flavor that characterizes the traditions of the older Eastern universities. Yet, for all their youth, they are no less dear to us, for by observing them we join hands with the many who preceded us. Two generations of Idaho students have added their bit until our traditions are symbolical of the spirit and temper which was theirs, and which we are expected to preserve intact, and to hand on to those who are to come after us. Sentiment and reverence for Idaho makes the observance of certain rites a sacred duty. In our Freshman year we run the gauntlet of the Hulme fight, the green cap, and the arduous yet ever enjoyable duties that fall to the lot of a Frosh. At Christmas time we sing the old Christmas carols on the campus. On campus day every Idaho student gives of his time and energy for a few hours to beautify and repair the campus which we all love. These and many other beautiful customs are observed throughout our college career until as a Senior we receive our diplo- mas, plant a vine or bush with our own hands as the last time-honored ceremony, and depart leaving that as a testimonial to future generations that Idaho is worthy of the love we cherish for her.

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THE CAMPUS STEPS The University and Its Meaning VER thirty years ago some far-seeing Territorial Legislature established the University of Idaho that their sons and daughters might reap the benefits of the high ideals and culture that such an institution would afford. Slowly but surely the hopes of these men have been accomplished until now the results of those thirty years act as an invisible leaven in the thoughts and actions of a great commonwealth, True it is that concrete evidence of the university exists in a small Panhandle village, yet no less tangible are the benefits which two generations of students have returned to their state. We, who are in attendance here now, are but satisfying an ever increasing demand that that process continue. Agriculture, engineering, mathematics and language are but subjects which we master through book s, but somewhere, every- where, through its halls and over its campus is that university spirit, that Idaho influence, which in four years molds not merely students but citizens. Tt is not learning alone which our state requires but understanding, appreciation, and sympathy, that her growth may be normal. Directly and indirectly this good, both tangibly and intangibly, is permeating the state, influencing its commerce, checking its evils, and assisting in the building of that state which our fathers planned and founded.

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VIEW OF MOSCOW FROM CAMPUS Native Sons and Others oe latest figures show that all but fourteen per cent of the students at Idaho come from within the state. In the all-Idaho enrollment, every county but one is represented this year, and South Idaho is practically as well represented as is the north. But these students, once they are on the campus, promptly forget sectional prejudices and enlarge the scope of their consciousness and pride to include the entire commonwealth. “Oh, let us sing of Idaho!” becomes a call to worship and pay tribute to first the University, then the great mountain-crested homeland we call our state. True, there are other sons and daughters of Idaho who are seeking college life beyond our borders. The percentage of these is all too large for the good of Idaho. It does not profit a state to bring immigrants in and send high-school graduates out. It does not make for community or state loyalty to covet our neighbor's institutions and belittle our own. [ut the real losers are they who wander afield. They find no better instruction, no finer or more wholesome spirit. And they lose thousands of acquaintances they could make use of all the rest of their lives. They lose the valuable background of Idaho life and Idaho conditions which only one university in the world is interested in presenting. Worse still, they lose contact with Idaho and all she represents of golden possibilities for the future. j18}