Excerpt from The Ohio State University Quarterly

Yes: you're remembering too. The visible spirit of the University, why can't we get at the real stuff of it, and speak of it as we do of life? It is emotion impelling thought. Only out of this process comes wisdom of life. When we recognize, identifying art with life by means of some realized and immediate beauty, that we too are living over in new ways all the old tales, the legend of the race, when we are just remembering, maybe, we are most living. Then what is it that we remember of our university days? Play, it must be confessed. Play, but we must not fail to discriminate that most young people, at least, are better artists in play than in work. Think how much more nearly right we are in play, for instance, in that there we judge a man by his best. Think how true it is of our young people that their minds alone are involved in most of their curriculum work, and how both mind and heart, the whole human, go into their collegiate play. When a man puts his heart with his mind into his work he is really grown up, not before; and he is also become an artist. But few undergrads are or ought to be mature. If you wantto try the experiment, come to the University, and build up from the catalogues and bulletins a historical essay on the development of the University; and then construct another historical essay from the files of the Lantern and the Makio, and from those excellent collections of pro grams that are called the Memorabilia. Which of these histories will best express the spirit of the University? The very question is absurd, the thing is so obvious. It was not mere fancy when we made a symbol of the owl in the concert. The spirit of the University is the human spirit; the art of life, the complete circle.

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