Washington and Lee University - Calyx Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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COLLEGE FRIENDSHIPS • • • HERE, TO LOOK BACK AND SEE WHAT LASTING VALUES WE j) ■ THE CLOSE OF THE COLLEGE TERM IS A GOOD TIME TO w3r ' ING DEGREE OF EMPHASIS ON THE DIFFERENT PHASES OF COINCIDE. THE PURSUIT OF LEARNING HAS BEEN THE TION TO THE EXTENSIVE FIELD OF EXTRA-CURRICULAR STILL OTHERS HAVE RESERVED THEIR BEST EFFORTS GAINED VALUABLE EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE. WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ALL THE OTHERS WHOLE SYSTEM IS GEARED TO ENCOURAGE THE OF UNIVERSITY LIFE AND THE EXAMPLE OF V HICH SERVE TO FOSTER FRIENDSHIP HERE. ALL HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE CURRICULAR RECORDS, AND OUR EXPLOITS DEPART AND SOON ARE OBSCURED BY FOLLOW THE SAME COURSE. IT IS WITH LEE WILL HELP TO KEEP OUR CLOSEST YEARS, THAT WE GIVE YOU THIS 1952

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CALYX JAMES HUNTER LANE. JR. • WALTER J. MAYTHAM III • EDITOR-IN-CHIEF BUSINESS MANAGER

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ASSESS THE BENEFITS WHICH WE HAVE DERIVED FROM OUR STAY ARE TAKING AWAY WITH US. EACH ONE OF US HAS PLACED A VARY- COLLEGE LIFE, AND CONSEQUENTLY OUR INVENTORIES WILL NOT PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF SOME; OTHERS HAVE DEVOTED MORE ATTEN- ACTIVITIES OR TO THE BETTERMENT OF THEIR FRATERNITIES, WHILE FOR THE ATHLETIC FIELD. • IN ALL THESE FIELDS OF ENDEAVOR WE HAVE AND, UNCONSCIOUSLY PERHAPS, WE HAVE DERIVED ANOTHER VALUE —THE FRIENDSHIPS WE HAVE CEMENTED. AT WASHINGTON AND LEE THE MAKING OF FRIENDS; THE TRADITIONS WHICH COMPRISE SO VITAL A PART THOSE WHO HELP TO KEEP THOSE TRADITIONS ALIVE ARE INFLUENCES FRIENDLINESS HAS BECOME ONE OF THESE TRADITIONS, ONE TO Vv HICH WE HAVE AND FROM WHICH, TO BENEFIT. • OUR SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS, OUR EXTRA- IN THE FIELD OF SPORTS ARE TO A LARGE EXTENT LEFT BEHIND US WHEN WE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF OTHERS. TOO OFTEN OUR COLLEGE FRIENDSHIPS THE HOPE THAT THIS RECORD OF OUR HAPPY ASSOCIATIONS AT WASHINGTON AND BONDS UNBROKEN AND WILL PERPETUATE OUR FRIENDSHIPS DOWN THROUGH THE CALYX . . .