Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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We have grown rafher selleconscious abouf +his book. H is wifh an increasing sense of +he absurd ihai we aHempf +0 capiure The many laces o1c Wesleyan in an all foo brief piciorial essay. Al besf. we can only hope +0 cafch Heeling impressions in phofographic resine a graceful gesiure. fhe fainf luminosi+y ol' a hahc formed smile. a shadow-efched figure . . . Difficulfies arise foo in +he formulafion of a +hemc which will prove meaningful and, 6+ Jrhe same +ime. realizable. A foo subfle presen+a+ion glides lighfly over Jrhe heads of +hose who ius'r adore all +he preHy pic+ures : on the ofher hand, a +heme which is foo obvious or ariy is oHen rendered iorceless and gaucly. And of course, our's is only one view of +he Universify. In brief. we are in+erpre+afive ani- mals prone +0 our own subiedivify. We have avoided Jrhe fempiaiion +0 slide back info paf formulae and conforfable s+ereo+ypes. We do hold, however, ihaf l'here are lfor wani of a less academically emaciafed fermll general char- acferisfics which mark +he mafurafion process. This book is abou+ such characferisfics and heigh+ening of +he sensibilifiesemovemenf and growfh which make +he four years a rich educaiional. and uniquely Wesleyan experience.

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The dish Thaf smokes younder seems f0 be an Olla Podrida. and from fhe variefy of ingredienfs of which +hese OHas are composed surely l can no? fail +0 lighf on somefhing which will be bofh savory and wholesome. Cervanfes

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To Be Together . . . Together . . . Warm In A Group