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

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imagined the challenge and intensity of the experience, but I find that I must rely on the words of Descartes when he said: ... I do not hesitate to claim the good fortune of having stumbled in my youth, upon paths which led me to certain considerations and maxims from which I formed a method of gradually increasing my knowledge and of im- proving my abilities as much as the mediocrity of my talents and the shortness of my life will permit. But the thought — Sewanee — lingered on. I have wondered about the people and about Sewanee, and I recall having talked to a fellow about the life there. He said, If you want to know about Sewanee, ask the people who work there, teach there, study there. Let them talk about themselves. What will they reveal of their nature? A unique and distinct group, like no other? Well, in a way; you will find that they Wrestling with books Registration: The longest morning. In an opening formality, the task is restated. FAR FROM THE WORLD, UPON A MOUNTAINS CREST 18

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CITY SET WITHIN A WOOD individual drops, taking its allotted time before realizing its full dynamic nature. The early morning trickle had become heavier by mid-afternoon but still remained gentle. But in those hours that mid-afternoon brought I found enough familiarity to enable me to quell for the moment my desire to think more about the place an d my commitment thereto. By nightfall Sewanee was filled with returned students — students breathing a fresher air and intimately sharing the events of the summer and the possibilities for the new year. I have sometimes been not quite sure what there is about Sewanee. but I have never regretted my having come. I could wish that I were able to say that I had already The stream of time often doubles on its course, but always it makes for itself a new channel. Frederick Lewis Allen Some of the most beautiful land in the South. Set within a wood. » I 4 F ' jj . ' 2 :

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Having stumbled in my youth upon certain paths . The Dean usually has a few words to say. Sometimes a lecture is only the beginning. have more intelligence and more seriousness than most. But for the most part, there are all kinds: the gentleman, the boor; the scholar, the bum; the romantic, the cynic; the Christian, the pagan. You ' ll find them anywhere and you ' ll find them there. If you let them continue, they will tell you it ' s a place for study: hours of painful toil spent for nought, cheap suc- cess, genuine accomplishment. They will tell you of the slow