The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-12-23

Lester c. Haworth, 10, has sent the
following Christmas greetings to the
Earlham alumni. He is field represen-
tative Of the college:
Again at Christmas did We weave
The holly round the Christmas
hearth;
The silent snow possessed the earth
And calmly fell our Christmas eve.
AS in the winters left behind
Again our ancient games had place,
The mimic pictures breathing grace
And dance and song and hood-man
blind"
-Tennyson's "In Memoriam."
To Every Earlhamite: Just now as
one sits in his college room, he hears
the sound of the old Earlham bell
which calls us to chapel on Sunday
morning. The same old bell It's life
work began over half a century ago
Many are the students who have re-
luctantly arisen from their slumbers
at its warning. Countless are the
times that it has called home the
strollers from their walks in the GENE
terry. Yes, one may even hear its
tolling notes when the full moon looks
down on the campus, casting pale
shadows of tree and shrub on the glis-
tening snow. This time it is the sig
nal for the evening meal which is be-
gun with a how do you do and
where food is "salted with humor.
peppered with wit and sprinkled over
with the charm of good fellowship"
or course you are busy with the
cares of life, as all of Earlham's chill
dren are. but pause for moment,
please and think how many Christ
mas days have come and gone since
last you saw the old dining room, or
chapel, or the other sacred spots
about the campus. In the nature of
things much about your college days
lies buried in the memory of the past.
Things at hand demand your time and
thought. But remember that as an
other Christmas rolls around old
Earlham Hall is capped with snow.
while about it, within it. exists the
same happy life, the same traditions
you helped to make. This generation
OF students also is treasuring up men,
cries which they will ever cherish, for
There are moments of life we never
forget,
Which brighten and brighten as
time steals on:
They give new charm to the hap
piest lot,
And they shine on the gloom of the
loneliest day"
The college is is steadily growing
better as her faculty is growing old
err and richer in experience. 1t is
composed of men who have an instinc-
tive interest in young life and who can
make the life of the scholar seem
worth while. This evening as the sun
is setting beyond the hills, one may
see the familiar figure of William N.
Trueblood vending his way westward
to his country home after a day we'll
spent in revealing the beauties of life
and lending inspiration to those who
have sat in his presence. Thus has
he spent nearly forty of his winters
Now look with me the other way and
see another of Earlham's great men
on horseback. cantering across the
campus. DR.. Dennis, too, has been for
forty years inoculating the Earlham
student with the virus of ambition and
scholarship The younger members
of the faculty are approaching these
men in point of usefulness and the
students are approaching. as never be-
fore. the fact that the way to become
scholarly is to associate with schol-
ars. Thus the relation between
teacher and student is growing closer
and closer.
And now. after the usual amount OF
"cramming" and digging" the fall
term of 1910 has passed into history
The upper classmen are becoming
saturated with the "Earlham spirit
With the new students the virus is
beginning to take" The happy life
Of the student body has been married
with very little sickness. At all times
there has prevailed a spirit of uni.
versal harmony and good will. gen.
uine term OF real college for real men