1960 Yearbook
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Title
1960 Yearbook
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FOREWORD
In The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky makes
Alyosha tell the boys at Ilusha's stone that an important
part of education is the acquisition of happy memories — that
after the years men find themselves being kept good by memories
of having been so.
We are older than Ilusha's schoolfellows. But men at college are
not so old that they miss the disinterested affection, the spontaneous
gaiety and the uncomplicated generosity which are the marks of
youth.
Someday it will be difficult to remember how we were gay
and good with so few misgivings.
This book is intended to be read on that someday. This
book is a hard bound mnemonic for fine times and fine
people.
The Oaks 1960 makes no attempt to picture the intellectual
labyrinth through which the student passes. We assume the
effects of it but declare that a yearbook has little relation to it.
The Oaks 1960 is a record for the future of what a pleasant place
Saint Ambrose was in which to become a man.
Some will say that this is to take education too lightly.
To them the editors can say only that twenty-five years from
now while they are reviewing their scruples, we shall be
smiling at old times.
In The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky makes
Alyosha tell the boys at Ilusha's stone that an important
part of education is the acquisition of happy memories — that
after the years men find themselves being kept good by memories
of having been so.
We are older than Ilusha's schoolfellows. But men at college are
not so old that they miss the disinterested affection, the spontaneous
gaiety and the uncomplicated generosity which are the marks of
youth.
Someday it will be difficult to remember how we were gay
and good with so few misgivings.
This book is intended to be read on that someday. This
book is a hard bound mnemonic for fine times and fine
people.
The Oaks 1960 makes no attempt to picture the intellectual
labyrinth through which the student passes. We assume the
effects of it but declare that a yearbook has little relation to it.
The Oaks 1960 is a record for the future of what a pleasant place
Saint Ambrose was in which to become a man.
Some will say that this is to take education too lightly.
To them the editors can say only that twenty-five years from
now while they are reviewing their scruples, we shall be
smiling at old times.
Date
1960
Rights
St. Ambrose University, 518 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA 52803
Identifier
http://cdm16810.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16810coll2/id/2844