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;'l^^^: AmiDOSGdM mm- /'"'. 'J.if,:•>.'' ;''.v; i>;'.v:'-^ ': ''.::f''r?:'<\:^'i''i!y.'i/A^.^^J' u\m.ir<i:i mmmM :••!•». I; 'i Ui%':^ujxu.i<pu-m m ITf'Pjl EGGLESTON LIBRARY HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, VIRGINIA 23943 rfe' Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/kaleidoscope1991hamp Our 95th (Not 98th) Volume... Student Life 'S'ft''"-.. ^^ Events <.^<^' Activities Faculty 88 Students 106 Features 144 Artworkreprintedfromthe 1962Kaleidoscope Eggiesto.'i Library Hampden-Sydney College Hampden-Sydney Traditions at Introduction When you think oftradition, what do you think of? Do you think of bell towers, single-sex, 215 years of wisdom accumulated from the minds of leaders and scholars alike? WhatareHampden-Sydney'straditions?Whatishercharacter, her essence? Well, the answer, like most answers, depends upon whom you ask. Withthatinmind,wehavededicatedthe 1991 Kaleidoscope tothetaskoffindingthosetraditions,offerretingthemoutand probing them, and, when necessary, of defending them and preservingthemhere inthesepages. But we turn acritical eye to those traditions, too. It is nece—ssary to look closely at the presuppositions of any tradition to determine whether it is real or illusory, useful or not useful, valuable or worthless. — Tradition without value is idolatry, worshipofthe dead just as life without tradition is oblivion. Traditions are the roots which ground us as we branch our way through our lives. They nourish us, and, yes, even allow us to grow. Traditions mean cohesion, order, stability. Traditions are what we cling to even as we change; what we learn from them constitutes the rock-bed ofourcharacter, the essence of what we are. That's why the traditions here at Hampden-Sydney are so vital. The things we learn fromtradition at Hampden-Sydney give us the foundation, even as we transform as men, to We transform with smoothness and grace. will change, but whatwe learnfromourtraditionsherewill helpusunderstand change, master it, shape it, and make it substantive. What do traditions here give us? What do they teach us? They bequeath us, when we are graduated, oureducation, our — manners, ourleadership ourability to mold full, productive lives forourselves. The traditions ofHampden-Sydney have, for215years,fosteredtheenvironmentinwhichallthesemost vital things in life have continued to live on, out oftime and beyond the grasp of the clamorings of the day. They have existedheresothattheymightbepassedontoyouandtoevery man who passes through our gates and back out again. In the pages ofthis book we will call our most important traditions to attention, so that they can tell us what they will. We will question them, examine them, and listen to them speak through the mouths of the students and the essayists. They will show us what they will in photographs. We will, by — — book's end, understand them, and we hope find them, living, breathing, and healthy. Most ofall, though, we will hear the aged wisdom which — they impart God willing, we will listen to them not as insolent youngsters hurrying to "get on with it," but as reverent grandchildren anxious to learn from them and, dutifully, torememberthem.Itistothedoomofmenthatthey forget.