Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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Student Bridge This rambling bridge, carved With names belonging to now-unfamiliar people, this is a tradition Valparaiso has inherited from the older University, from another century. Like todayis University, Student Bridge mingles oldness With newness, builds new steps upward on yesterdayis lasting timber. This bridge is the symbol of all traditions of Valparaiso University.

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Q THE WORLD, war means an uprooting of fit! all that is familiar. But for us, the youth of America, rearmament and ultimatums, the accelerated program and postwar planning are molding an increasingly accepted pattern for adult living. It is for those of us who have touched the traditions and the familiar customs just as they began to be brushed aside, to record the old ways for those who are making the new. May what we had hoped for and found in the past years of peace be tempered by the battles we fight, and the echoes of the battles others fight for us. In the sequence of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, it is the today that deter- mines what we shall inherit from yesterday, and seek for tomorrow. For what are we seeking? Some say the little things, afternoon walks down a yellow country road, carols under the campus Christmas tree. These are good. It is, right that we record them while they are still in remembering distance. But piercing beyond them all is the enduring Valparaiso tradition, the unaltering search for Christ- founded Truth. To this search, and to its one answer, this 1944 Beacon is dedicated.

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Locomotives With the vsar came the long freights and the troop trains, the outside world cutting across our quietness. Pauses for their passing by the buildings edging the campus come more often and last longer. Locomotives, black against the snow, bring a new tradition to a war- years generation of students.