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Show And One for 1967 What is the magic of Homecoming? Where lies the spell that brings us back to the campus year by year in the golden fall to reminisce and criticize, to shake hands and look wistfully back? Maybe it is the magic of youth. Maybe it is because it was then when we were in college that we were very young young, beautiful, enthusiastic, idealistic, and so intelligent. We thought we were immortal then. The years have brought home the truth. But to return to college for Homecoming is to touch that youth and beauty and to draw strength from it. It is customary to revere the opinions of the elderly simply because they are elderly. But maybe we were more nearly right when we were young. Maybe we saw things more clearly when we were fired with zeal and enthusiasm and idealism. At least our viewpoint was as valid as any other. If age can bring wisdom and maturity, so can it bring cynicism and bitterness. "0 youth," exclaims the narrator in Stevenson's story of that name. "The strength of it, the faith of it." He recalls re-calls a journey of his youth in a brokendown ship which carried on her stern the words Do or Die! "To me she was not an old rattle-trap carting about the world a lot of coal for a freight to me she was the endeavor, the test, the trial of life." Maybe that is what brings us here. |