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

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♦ • ♦ ' ' ♦ t RICHMOND SWIRLS AROUND US, AND IN HER MIDST WE GROW

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••♦•♦♦♦•♦♦ MB From the lowland of the fall line of the James, the skyscrapers of Richmond ' s past and future rise to meet the southern sky. Born of two separate ideas, two completely different elements, Richmond the City and Richmond the Professional Institute have come to be recognized as an integrated form, a whole unit striving for the betterment and refinement of humanity through the benefits of educational and aesthetic training. It wasn ' t too long ago that a dream was established in a couple of rooms upstairs in a downtown Richmond dwelling. The dream was the product of an active mind filled with determination and hope for Tomorrow ' s education. The setting was a rather small space carved out of a corner of one of the South ' s most fash- streets, Franklin Street, Downtown Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. TOGETHER WE STAND, CHILDREN OF THE SOUTH

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snnnj • •• • !. npn Li: •. -y When the student first arrives in the midst of Richmond ' s downtown hustle and bustle, he is bewildered, and the activities of his campus world are limited to the residence hall. Grad- ually the world in which he is so newly tossed enlarges, first the area of Franklin Street becoming known, and then more and more the scope of the heart of Richmond, the busy thoroughfare, the secluded alley, the sound of workmen and machinery grinding on in an endless symphony of the progress of man and the build- of a city and a school.