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

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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 . . .

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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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DEDICATION In every university there are certain pro- fessors who are remembered as men long after the knowledge they imparted has become muddled and faded. This does not mean that they have failed in their primary objective, for by our association with them we gain lessons in human relations far more valuable than the abstract fragments of learning with which they sought to inoculate us. The man to whom we dedicate this yearbook is that sort of pro- fessor. He has been able to preserve the stu- dent outlook which he acquired during his own undergraduate days at Washington and Lee and to inject it into his teaching and his extra-academic relations with students. His in- terest in campus affairs has been manifested by his twenty-five years of service on the Publications Board and by his unflagging par- ticipation as a faculty member of ODK. His warm, man-to-man manner toward the indi- vidual student has endeared him to those that know him and has fostered an ideal facul- ty-student relationship. This easygoing famil- iarity has bred no contempt but rather sincere respect and genuine fondness among a large part of the student body. Their attitude toward him has been summed up innumerable times in words similar to these — No one should go through W. and L. without taking a Hig course. We join with his other admirers in dedicat- ing this 1952 CALYX to Mr. John Higgins Williams. 0k 0 0k 0k rtelH