Vassar College - Vassarion Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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Elan vital Spanish con versalion It is a Wonderful feeling when you Hrst find yourself reading or talking foreign languages without plunging into the dictionary at every second word. Now they mean more than order- ing from a menu. They are clues to other coun- tries and other peoples. Sturm und Drurign at 8:15 12

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People who live in glass lalzorutories . .' In other fields, problems ranging from plants to planets to personality, are perhaps less directly connected with the war, but are no less inter- esting to work with. Stars in their eyes Stimulus response

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In cunabulae Higher learning We can no longer rely on languages alone to guide us. To have any real understanding of the present we must turn to history and the classics. There may seem to he little connection be- tween l05's wrestling with the feudal period, declensions of Latin nouns or the Greek vases in the Classical Museum. Then it all begins to hang together-before exams, if we are lucky- hut even after the details are a little blurred and we,ve forgotten the dates of the battles of Marathon, Tours or Waterloo, the pattern lasts. 13