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

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Otlier activities have played a part too, for education has not been our sole endeavor. Perhaps we have weighed in our minds those extra things. In retrospect, we may discover the reason why it was worthwhile to spend long hours helping to get out a school paper, or why it was important for the Executive Committee to work several days on some small problem, just to reach tlie best solution. And then there were the dances and the parties — those weekends when the Hill was pretty much out of the question. Even the good times will be remembered only as fragments. We may recall the people and the noise, or perhaps only one person and the still of a spring night. During these four years, some of us have met the girl who will be the Only One forever. Or perhaps she was the Only One for just a few weeks. In any case, there was love and laughter.

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Education has been the reason for our being here. But even what we have learned and all that has stimulated our minds cannot be recalled in full. In the final analysis, it is only people that matter. And so what we take from this university will be in part the memory of a few men who helped us discover things of which we were unaware, and the contents of a few great books by men we may never know — men who spoke to us through the written word. A few men and a few books may seem a small return on a four year investment, but from men and books come ideas and it is only ideas that lead men to action.

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The mind has struggled, but the muscles have labored also. Possibly we starred but more than likely, we were just another of those who shared the blood and sweat of being on the team. Funny how the practices always seemed much harder than the games. There was tired happiness when we won, and, occasionally, tears when we lost. A university is a community and the people that matter most are the ones with whom we lived and worked. Out of the hundreds of faces, the noisy meals, the beer and Glenn Miller records, will remain a handful of true friends. Odd, though, how easy it is to recall the terrible loneliness of the first freshman days. Strange, that on the eve of graduation that loneliness should be the same.