Western Michigan University - Brown and Gold Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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Welte n StddxHied- .... Nearly 500 facul+y members, ad- ministration officers, and em- ployees of the school combine their efforts that Western might learn; more than t,500 different classes meet in the process of presenting these efforts . . . . . . and when Western has lis- tened, absorbed, and pondered, words are transformed into action in dozens of different types of proving grounds . , . . . . the finished product is evalu- ated; mistakes corrected, weak- nesses strengthened, and concepts formed . . .

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W de m, 19 8 Each fall more than three thousand of those who call Southwestern Michigan their home — and a sprinkling of those to whom Michigan is a new environment — trek to Western ' s hilltop in search of knowledge. From September until June they study, re- lax, learn, and apply. They find out what Emerson has to say about self-reliance; they find the unknowns of a chemical substance; they learn to write, act, sing, create, lecture, and to teach. They steel themselves against the icy January winds which sweep down Oakland Drive and they bask in the warm sunlight of a beautiful June afternoon. They thrill to a one-point basketball decision, and talk of the future on spring evenings when they gaze at the moon from the Ad Building steps . . . they are Western, 1948 . . . Class cards, yellow cards, government cards. Just plain cards . . . Close to four thousand West- ernites go through this pro- cess . . . . . . and those who have gone before leave their mark in Western ' s history . . ,

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.... and A44 lU e6 JznOiAjJLedae .... Training School, State High, Paw Paw, Portage Directed teaching is the final step in teacher education; the products of Western are then ready to turn their efforts from learning alone to teaching and learning together . . . . . . Western thinks seriously of the future, but life on the Bronco campus has its lighter moments . . ,