University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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The history of universities, we have found, is gorgeously rich in scope for the imagination, and our choice has been difficult. Both in historical incident and in decoration, however, we have tried to se- lect that which would trace our own loved Alma Mater back through the ages to the first medieval stirrings, and to contrast our own life and customs with those of the students of our American contempo- raries as well as our intellectual ancestors. We have elected to present those incidents in the history of the University which were significant in their time and which have proved to be the very foundation upon which the institution of universities has been erected. These we have selected as those events which portray the recognition of the economic freedom of the University, and the attainment of the political freedom of the University. With- out these, the University of the past could not have survived, and consequently there would have been no such highly developed Uni- versity of the present. We hope that from this presentation the reader will acquire a fuller appreciation of the modern university, and specifically, the Uni- versity of Missouri.

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PREFACE The prime function of the Savitar, as the yearbook of the Uni- versity of Missouri, is to record fittingly the personalities and events of its year. This is no small task for a University family so large, with activities so diverse, as ours: but the inherited experience of the past has simplified this work. It is a criticism of the modern Uni- versity that its students are too self-composed, too far removed from the outside world. So it is, that frequently editors of the Savitar seek to embellish their volumes by endeavoring to present the relation of life and affairs at the University to some aspect of its origin, back- ground, and surroundings. This is done by means of decorative fea- tures of the book, and is known as its theme. We invite your consid- eration of our theme. We have attempted to picture, in a limited space, something of the history and development of the University, not of Missouri, or of any other single seat of higher learning, but the cry institution of universities. Lack of space and means has confined our presentation to a few highlights and our opening pages; yet even these, we hope, will be sufficient to enable the reader to project the Unixcrsity of Missouri 1927 against her inheritance of the centuries.

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