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

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VtU| » Devotion to Life Of human bondage. To him who in the love of Nature.

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Despite a precipitate expansion, small classes still are the rule. The handwriting on the wall. He prayeth best, who loveth best All Things, both great and small.

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It is thiough such friendships that f(hi- cation on the Mountain transcends stated facts and ]irinted theories: stimulating a regard for learning as a moving, viable force. The student learns in perspective, as he usually knows not only what the pro- fessor says, but why he says it and in what context. Sewanee is one of the few institutions where the exigencies of mass teaching haven ' t stripped the student of his right to ask questions and voice disagreements in class; lectures on the Mountain are punc- tured with freijuent discussions and inter- jections of opinion. Hy the senior vear, most students are either possessed of fair oratorical skill or silent, having learned to a ' oid the quick laughter which rewards ill-founded conclusions and long-winded arguments. Thus does the Sewanee man learn, not by the mechanical process of take in and spew back, but b) ' total involvement in a personal and ital endeavour. The Word