University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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We hove chosen Connections as our theme for the 1961 INDEX. For here ot the University, we ore connected to many things, some may be more apparent than others, and the connections do exist. We ore connected to the University, to our fellow students and to our professors. We ore connected to our families bock home, to other schools, to the real world. There is (yes, really) a connection between studying and portying, between learning and doing, and between getting a degree and getting a job. Finally, we ore connected to the history of the University. With that, we would like to conclude with the following quote: In submitting to you this volume of the Index, we have to offer a congradulotion upon being enabled to look bock on a year . . . replete with facts which, os bearing on the future of our institution, are significant. We allude to the growing popularity of our college ond the rank it is taking among institutions of learning. From the year of its foundation the college has had to encounter oppositions of every sort and mognitude . . . We ore slowly but surely living down all this unfriendliness; and, fellow-student, don ' t leave all this work of conversion to the mon ot the wheel. Although the ship is in good hands, yet we, as students, in our peculiar relations with one another and with the public, act on importont port in giving character and ploce to the college . . . We hove a word to soy to the succeeding class: Do not foil to publish the Index; there ore some in every doss who will be indifferent or opposed to the publication. This is the only exponent there is in college to represent the students, which ought to be sufficient reason for its continuance. Editorial from 1876 INDEX