Virginia Commonwealth University - Cobblestone Wigwam Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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t ♦•••••«.••• These elements manifest themselves in many ways; they are the concerts in the dorm which inevitably follow big dances and parties, or the open houses at Halloween when the cider and guitar music flow with equal sweetness and abundance; or the maturing person who shows enough concern for others to give up an evening to play Santa Claus for the kids at an orphanage. Even more, these intangibles are re- flected in an environment that is distinct- ly cosmopolitan and stimulating. It is most certainly reflected in a campus where an alley is never an alley but always a mews, where the traditional greenery of college !awns is substituted by hybrid concrete and paving stone. It is an en- vironment whose whole personality is changed with a cloudy sky or falling rain, and also one whose rooftops and sign- posts enhance the intimate nature of its character. 11 An environment with personality . . . Nvhose intimate nature is enhanced . . . . and an alley is always a mews - ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ » • J

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,v - . ' V- i : ;« -S ,«t ' 0- Woven around the are threads . . . The imagination of true creativeness blended with a firm grounding in the practical aspects of a profession provide but half the sum of education. Only the finished fabric is visible, for woven around the warp are threads of a much more complex and less easily defined nature. This is the intangible; a subtle agent which plays such a vital role in the materializa- tion of dreams and the development of ideas. of a much more i nplex .ily defined natu It Is composed of all the little things, and a few big things too, that the RPI student puts his hand to or comes in con- tact with during his education- al lifetime. As strange as these things appear, and as un- related as they seem to the fundamentals of college life, they are, nevertheless, impor- tant elements in conditioning of spirit and development of the brighter side of human- kindness. iJ JSJ:J J 10

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