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FOREWORD For years, the COMMODORE has been what one might call a traditional Southern college yearbook, and Vanderbilt has been, likewise, perhaps a tra- ditional Southern college: conservative, more or less tranquil, often leisurely. But now Vanderbilt can no longer remain the small but good Southern college, when today the need is for great universi- ties, because Knowledge today has grown bigger than Hell. And so we have change: all of us are aware of this, .we have seen the new buildings, heard the new plans, indeed, witnessed significant changes in our own institutions, in only four years. And while all this seems necessary, some of it is almost sad, especially since we don't lcnow exactly where we are going. The COMMODORE too has decided to change: we must if we are to record what is happening. But we hope to keep much of what has been best in previous yearboolcs: we intend to exercise good taste, we shall not become elaborate and gaudy. Nevertheless, we must be honest, and to be that, we must become sometimes serious, and often sar- castic. In short, we plan to give you the truth, in plain American which dogs and cats can read. All progress is not good, but a large amount of progress, very fast, presently appears desirable. However, the change that follows assumes a variety of forms. For the first time in half a cen- tury, social fraternities, those remnants of nine- teenth century romanticism, have been to some extent challenged at Vanderbilt, the old literary societies, someone pointed out, have grown into an animal of another type. Where ideals of ritual and brotherhood have decayed, new standards of bacchanalianism and suavity have become en- trenched. Tllis has caused quite a bit of thought, and some speculation.
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Football, king of the campus, lost its divine ri last season: it too has been seriously questio A new coach seems to have injected life into veins, but this could well be, instead, a d tremor. Not long ago, students abolished political par now the Student Association, teeming branches, mired in committees, is under fire Vanderbilt students are not too apathetic writer will not overuse that word again-to t about changing, or even abolishing, our b student government. In a burst of innocuous idealism, VUCEPT born, but it will have to fight for survival i cynical college world. Not only are Hustler and Spectrum better, more influential, this year, but also blossor organizations, notably A.P.O., V.U.T., T. and W.V.U., have suddenly assumed ca leadership, which is all well and good, despit Rooseveltian connotations. But the knight in shining armour, whose sh blesses the above, has been academic excellenc least, Vanderbilt is harder now than it was years ago, and the students are somewhat intelligent. As a university, with an enl graduate school, a law school that is rapidly a ing regional leadership, and a nationally impo medical school, Vanderbilt has apparently acc its challenge. And the present period of tran has given us a taste of some consequences. For one thing, the Board of Trust decide integrate the undergraduate school, then Luther King, Jr. was a campus speaker in cember-most of the students were home Christmas. Anyway, Jimmy Hoffa was alm speaker, and the campus newspaper-not to tion quite a few students-has been more o liberal for several years, but the Young Con tives organized in the spring, so what we have as well as everywhere else, is a battle of ideol and the issues are not yet decided. The issues may never be decided. Perhap average Vanderbilt undergraduate is not concerned with issues anyway, we suspect somewhat more concerned with his own prow You tend to see the University as a part of. self. Years from now, you will think it was ' of your life, and perhaps that, essentially, is it is. And we suppose the purpose of a yea is to record, as well as possible, these little ments of people's lives, so that when you l this you will remember Vanderbilt, and yo say, there it is, that is what it really was. such, we must be scrupulously honest, for c is not really a sentimental place: you find of anger, cynicism, and humour there. Oh,
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