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

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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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MAY 4 ' 55 LEE I V8 f.2»5°P ' 3 ' AS AUCUSTA ACADEMY. NEAR GREENVILLE; REESTABLISHED AT TIMBER RIDGE, MAY. 1775, AS LIBERTY HALL ACADEMY: MOVED TO LEXINCTOH AND CHARTERED AS A COLLEGE, 1 782? ENDOWED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1796. AND NAMED FOR HIM. UNDER PRESIDENCY, IS rHrSN.°V ER S ? CH APE S ' % ' Amf |tH W S INCORPORATED IN THE OFFICIAL TTTLE., ,, Each June the seniors at Washington and Lee come to the end of their undergraduate careers. Four years is a big investment when you ' re in your twenties. In the last hectic days, we realize that our short stay has ended and that life will soon take us to different places where new adjustments must be made. Washington and Lee will be a part of the past. We will never be able to relive or recall the whole of these four years. What we will remember will be fragments of our experiences here and their significance may not be the criteria lay which they are recalled.

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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.