University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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OXFORD— MOTHER OF ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES Flourishing since the 1 7th century, Oxford I ' ni- versity. offspring of the University of Paris, mothered the fledgling universities of the New World. Through its existence were preserved the inheritances of economic and political freedom gained at Bologna and Paris. The Tower of Magdalen College has been called the most beautiful college structure in the world, and it is more than a little reminiscent of the Memorial Tower at Missouri.

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No Ancient or Moctern Belter Typijies The University Spirit Than Roger Bacon. TO THE UNI V LKSITY S P I I IT There is a spirit that has urged men to seek truth — knowledge — throughout the ages. In the past — an inspiration for men to endure the tyranny of persecution to be with teachers who would suffer death rather than retract their beliefs. Today -a stimulus to students and teacher alike to strive to increase the sum of man ' s knowledge and trans- mit It to luture generations. This ideal has kept the universities of the world alive in good times and ill. It has led to the building of temples of learning, whose architecture is a metaphor in stone of the upward-reaching aspiration toward Cjod and knowledge. This spirit is the vital force at the University of Missouri today— just as it has been in all the universities of the past. To it — the Uni- versity Spirit — this volume of the Savitar is dedicated.

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