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

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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.

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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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And now I make an attempt to recall, for the mere delight of recalling, scenes that somehow I will never forget, scenes that are my very own, part of my being: I remember climbing out of bed on a cold winter morning in the early hours before dawn and crossing to the window. The moonlight, as if it had been watching for this, burst into the room. I opened the casement and moved closer. The night was fresh, bright and very still — with the trees dark on one side of the road, and brilliant light sparkling on the 2AE teammates spur their brothers on. GOD BLESS THEE . . . scenes that are my very own . Gloom of a Sunday afternoon on a party weekend.