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

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f -• M Yea! Sewanee ' s Right! MY ALL TO THEE— Sewanee men aid in alleviating the problems in under- developed areas of Virginia on weekends. A person begins the year with great expectations, yet he knows that it will be hard, harder than the year before and at the same time he knows that it will be good in many ways but it will be best when it is over and he can look back. He has lived through the loneliness and despair and the happiness and gaiety before and he knows that when another year has passed, he will know and understand himself better and he will feel a closeness with the place and its people. Is it possible to say what Sewanee really is, or to say what the Sewanee gentleman is really like? I think the only way to answer these questions is to try to remember the things and scenes that stand out and have special places in a year at Sewanee. 7

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. . . quiet confidence in things that will come in time . . . Campus leaders exemplify the school spirit. I look back over a year at Sewanee and I see many things and they all have a personal meaning. I watch from my w indow as the wind whisks soft swirls of snow across the yard and piles it against the grey stones of a wall. I see Shapard Tower bathed in the golden glow of the autumn sunset. I walk the paths of Abbo ' s Alley in the fall with the brilliant leaves crackling under my feet and the majestic grey sky overhead. I remember the overhanging scarped cliff with its trailing vines and its dark shadows. I want to go on, but I can ' t go on because I still can ' t decide whether the leaves floating on the stream, like little children ' s boats, or the sun settling toward the western mountains is the more beautiful. I walk on up the path, slowly at first, trying to see and remember everything. The sun is behind me and my long shadow stalks ahead, and I seemed to carry a tower of darkness with me. I tell myself to go forward and meet another year, yet I know what is ahead of me and it is difficult. I WILL GIVE Leaping Lizards — The annual fresh- men Cake Race.

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Our primary concern at Sewanee is to get an education. Dr. Joseph H. Parks, chairman of the history department of the University of Georgia, lectures on General Leonidas Polk at the Founders ' Day service. It is difficult to remember all the names and places and to connect all the events of a year, for when one looks back through the haze of time, everything seems to have merged into a long narrative with no real distinctions or lapses of time between events. Trying to describe a year at Sewanee is much the same as an attempt by Picasso to paint a picture in words.