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Reflection and Revelation |
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Hardback or Soft Cover? |
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| In today’s world of throwaway
paperbacks and "books" you can download from the Web and print
off one chapter at a time, hardbound books
with embossed leather covers, sewn bindings
and gold-edged pages convey a sense of permanence, quality and value. The
implied message is that these volumes are the "sacred
scriptures" of this institution and the ideas and images contained in
them are TRUTH.
The earliest volumes record the institutions’ few years’ worth of history in lengthy essays and specific detail. Thus, these books function as formal documentation - sometimes the only record - of people, programs and events associated with the school. Through the years, less and less text is included as more of the pages are devoted to visual images. By the late 1960s the photographs themselves lack any identification reflecting, perhaps, a cultural era in which personal identity was less important than being part of the masses, and historical consciousness was secondary to "living in the moment." |
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| Page last updated on July 17, 2000. |
