Vassar College - Vassarion Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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Papers are just as inevitable as taxes-if not more so. All of us have stayed up, fortified with coffee while the rest of the corridor slept, to wrestle with stubborn prose and unmanageable facts, over papers ranging from sociological sur- veys to childhood reminiscences. If anything out of this welter of words even approaches literacy, we owe it to the English department, which has pruned our prose and given us a per- spective of literature from Beowulf to Wolfe. fllidn ight oil llJll'llli0llf?l1 Ifomc for Lea 16 i

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The results of learning these theories, of all the rushing to reserve shelves, only to find them hare, of poring over charts, graphs and endless statistical tabulations, come out in varied ways. There are the graphic projects of the Social Museum, like The Growth of Democracy. There is the 'post-War planning group, which studies the past decades in the hope of creating a frame- work for future plans. Even the heated dis- cussions late at night, in rooms littered with cigarette stubs and coke bottles, with long words and basic assumptions bandied around, are more closely involved with those hours in the libe and the grey morning eight-fifteens than we would admit. Project

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In the spring we move from Rocky to hold classes under trees and battle the local insect life. And in the evenings We drag out flat Hfty boxes of topic pads and the accumulated debris of one to four years of notes, and wonder how we ever hope to pull this together into any kind of shape. Ilzid, op. cit. All I could see rom, where I stood . . . 17