Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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In a Hortutory Mood mhy, some of my best friends are members of the Class of 1972! They are doubters, self- doubters and us-doubters. They are confused heads and potheads, ingenuous in their cynic- ism and sophisticated in their idealism, stud- iedly hedonistic and wantonly austere-mirrors t0 the nature of contemporary complexity and 22 t0 the very nature of man. These who drop out into com1ter-cu1ture, cop out of society into selfhood, contract far out to an altered state of consciousness are, I am persuaded, the real spirit of ,72, not those many others moving on obedient to the inertia of 52 01' 22. One wrote similarly to the Class of 1970.

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These of this year may be that yearts strikeys last heirs, straggling, struggling in isolation, fragments, remnants of the community then raised up. In 1940 my valedictory cried woefully, ttPeace at any priceV, Despite Commencement rhetoric sounding forth, echo of violence aboundin , Nixonian and vastly other, some will pay t e prices of personal peace, even if it be to confinement on a brave new worlds reser- vation. To them, one by one, not fearful of pre- sumption: ttNobler Savage, Sulute-love in Christ from one to another tpilgrim and stranger who can tarry but a night . . . Michael Millen 23