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Beginning a New Year With the service of Convocation, the aca- students mingle with those pursuing mathn- demic school year begins. There is a feeling mattes. The faculty views a group of human of anticipation and excitement on the part of beings ready to work in their respective Melds, both students and faculty ,15 professors walk but always side-by-side with their fellow down the aisle and take their places. With the students. message from the President, and with the read- It has been said that the college community ing of the student honors from the preceding is a small-scale world. Thus, this picture on semester, the school year is officially opened. Convocation Day can teach us that if men are As the strains of the Alma Mater fill Alumni to exist in our contemporary world they must Hall, each student and faculty member leaves learn to live, work and play together. No longer to take up the work of another college year. coin they draw apart and refuse to cross the But before they go, let us take a look at the lines of the areas in which they Hnd themselves. stage where the brilliantly colored hoods of Instead, they must join forces to work for the the various degrees are mingled together to betterment of mankind if thcre is to be a life make an impressive picture. Here there is no for tomorrow. So, as the students and faculty separation between departments; here there leave after Convocation to start the new col- is no Feeling of class isolation. Instead, the stu- lege year, they leave together, each strong in dent sees an integrated group making up what his individual Meld, hut dependent on all the he can proudly call his college faculty. others to make this pursuit of knowledge a SIlC- Conversely, as the professor looks down on cess. Once again the words of John Donne re- the student body, he does not see economics mind us that, "No 111,111 is an Island ,. majors separated from English majors. History 14