The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-06-12
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seo1 tAe dear old halls Of Eormal
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NIsa sAe klAd and merry vOioea-
sAs.ths aed yeass Q. WORK and pleasure
HeEo together VIC have passed
Slowly climbing WisdOnfs ladder,
lTh Ne near the goal Gs 1ask so
Not that We have reached the summit,
whence ne view the nsids below;
OF elfnhAng yet must follow,
are We 70 the top can 90.
Only gained little vantage,
Whence We view broad sefencs,s plain;
hskn SooVe us, W1edom's mountain;
Far beyond truths hoandless main.
Merely looking towards the mountain,
Shall We thus contented be?
Or by climbing higher pathways
breathe tts air, both pure and freea
Labor's Held spreads out before us.
With Whist fortune Who can tellf
VIII We sink beneath its burdens
Oraulhil its mission Welif
All may not tread paths Of roses;
some misfortune awaits as all
In the just sud nobls conflicts
! sorTeys some may know. fun measure;
SAD ceteee for some may waltz
Ilfe's great problem lies before us.
And for some may prove too great.
shall Ne then sh rink back from danger.
Trembling At thu portals waltz
trembling doubts n0'er yet succeeded;
CoWardiee does nothing great
Failures often prove . blessing;
SORROW proves purging nres
From defeat We learn TO conquer.
BY roagh pathways climb We higher.
Labor brings its own reward,
And though Justices wheels turn slow,
As just Sod rules above us,
Truth and right reward shall know.
Let us, then, ~ we're together,
March forth into the fight,
Hedge ourselves to contest breVely
For the truth and for the right.
If We fall. let's fail like heroes.
with our faces 70 the foe,
Bravely battling for the right.
Nobly seeking truth to know.
For your kindness. dearest teachers.
We may never hope TO pay.
But tnes heaven may richly bless you
We Will never cease to pray.
You've not only done your duties,
But have made our tasks moi g light
By ten thousand acts of love,
By kind words and faces bright.
Without love the earth Is hollow;
Without fr endship life is vain:
Intellect availeth nothing
without kindness TO sustain.
Love Of teachers and of classmates
VIII sustain us in the frAys
with their mem'ries green we'll conquer,
Though In conflicts far away.
In the days we spent together
Friendship strengthens more and more,
Until ties most strong and binding
Bind the class Of 'Sl.
And though space will soon divide us,
ct those ties may bind. and will;
Aem'ry will O'erieap the chasm,
And the class be with US It'll.
Yet in mem'ry we may cherish
Faces kind and words Of cheer,
Aud may draw q useful lesson
From the life that each led here.
Classmates. still We linger fondly,
Ere the last fareWells are DER.
Must We, can We thus be ps rtsd.
Dear old class Of 's4f
A very pleasing interpolation in con
nection with the program was the pre-
seutation, by Miss Lula Holmes, on be.
half of the class, of the beautiful
engraving of shakespeare and bis
Friends" to President Taylor and his
esteemed wife. The language employed
by Miss Holmes In he accomplishment
Of this agreeable Formality was exceed
ingly well chosen. and conveyed
in delicate and feeling terms
the deep affection entertained by the
class for their president and for the gen.
tie lady who has Won her way so fully
to the hearts of the Normal students.
The response by President Taylor.
denoted the deep emotion which this
beautiful memento awakened. The
class were assured that no such ngible
evidence of their love was needed e
keep their memory always alive in the
hearts of the speaker and the sharer
of his destinies, but that he could only
thank them for gilt which would moi
only be priced by virtue of its great
beauty but as testimonial OF affection
which would add to its value q hundred
told.
The class then retired from the ros.
trum to prepare for the next exercise
and pending their return Miss Simcock
rendered two pleasing numbers on the
piano.
The class reunion forty years hence
then followed, in which Miss Hoxie ap
pears supported by two faithful attend.
ants and upon being led to an easy chair
receives the class of '64, all OF whom al
pear burdened with trials and bleached
with the frosts of two score years. The
range of experiences asrelated were a
wide as they were amusing, and the
performance was, to say the least, 6
most agreeable departure from the con
ventional class history.
The class then sang a number of orig.
inal couplets setting forth the character
istics Of its members. to the popular tune
THERE'S One More River 10 Cross
ana after q most hearty and general ex-
change of the courtesies of the evenint
the large audience dispersed thoroughly
we'll pleased with the exercises of thu
evening.