University of Virginia Library

By Paul Larsen

It is the melting pot of youth. A world created
out of disdain for the old, the traditional, the accepted.
A city with no country, a people with no
heritage. It is an alluring world, an exciting one. It
has been termed "the society of tomorrow," yet it
borrows heavily from the past. It is a world for the
young, the new, the experimental. It was not unexpected
that its appeal would spread and the inquisitive
would come.

They came from New York, Washington, Chicago,
Denver. There were delegates from Harvard, Antioch,
Oberlin, Michigan State. They came to look, to
see, to learn; most to return home with the commencement
of another school year. A few would
linger on, having been caught up in the tempting
and appealing way of life.