University of the South - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Sewanee, TN)

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Registration formalizes the end of summer It ' s first come, first served as far as room assignments, says Dean Webb. Dorm rush affords all freshmen the opportunity to meet a majority of the upperclassmen. ALMA MATER, SEWANEE Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon. I gaze down the long slope with its grass that bends and shivers and the memories, my very own, drift through me like dim music, like that appeasing heart-broken theme of the Pathetique or the unbearable peace and tears of the Good Friday Spell or Bach ' s French Suite. Only the music is blurred, with the anguish gone. It has all been good and worth the sweat and toil. I see it as a dream I long to hold, but not to relive. I hear voices unbelievably soft (Whose are they? Was it at one of the mountain coves with the orange glow of the setting sun or was it in the dim light of dawn with the mist and fog shrouding everything?) , soft voices that murmur: Don ' t leave me. It is that voice calling me back to the four years of experiences I ' ve had and the people I ' ve known and the things I ' ve felt. I walk through the fog in the early morning across the quadrangle seeing things I ' ve never seen before and hearing sounds I had never been conscious of. How can it be recalled when it is a part of you and never leaves? 3

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Sewanee cannot be relived again — It is like walking along the south edg of the Mountain in the morning light, across the panels of shadow, catching a glimpse between the luminous naked oaks and emerging into a new world. emerging into a new world Members of the 1966 class.

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Those never-ending meetings MY GLORIOUS MOTHER The cheers and shouts of rush week. Suddenly one realizes that Sewanee is a place where a person finds himself. Some have found themselves, most have acquired a sense of belonging. Sewanee is not an easy place to love nor is it an easy place to know, but it does give a person the necessary identity with life to know and feel the ultimately important things. Pep rally starts off football weekend. Freshmen orientation never seems to end.