Academy of the Visitation - Crescent Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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When sad, in front of me they stand, Hankie to red eyes pressed, Discouraged, homesick, very blue, My true self gives the test. I show them how unnatural Is thelr so downcast look Sweet faces surely such as the1rs Should ne er a shadow brook Thus I see them as they pass by So dxfferent all so dear' September really seems to be The best tlme of the year Helen Thompson 21 VI V WHO WAS ALARMED7 You should have seen us Thursday' Off by ourselves grgglmg and whxspermg you would have thought that we were plannmg something ter r1ble a mldmght feast or a luke prank We were xndeed consprrmg but nothing so dramatlc That night xn the Dom we watched for our oppor tumty and so we could not retnre to our rooms We sat around Sxster each havmg somethmg very xmportant to say and all beggmg her to let us stay up just a mmute longer At last our awalted chance came as one of the Grads left her room We stopped talkmg at once and cast at one another an mqulrxng look readlly mterpreted I wonder lf she took xt home? Hardly had she dlsappeared down the corrxdor when I Jumped up and ran to the room she had just left It was m darkness I groped around and soon touched somethmg cold A second and the terrlble deed was done' Rush1ng back to the laughmg consplrators I reported my success We all went to bed soon after but not to sleep Shall I ever forget those long hours as they rolled slowly on to m1dn1ght9 We were very txred but not one would go to sleep fearmg that she might mlss the excxtement that was sure to follow upon the consummation of our deed whose fateful hour was 2 00 o clock Are you sure you d1d lt rlght V1rg1n1a9 Yes' Do you thmk It w11l spoll her beauty sleep? Walt t1ll she gets you m the mormng' She wont fmd me' Say what tlme IS It now? Twelve Gee two more hours' Somebody wake me up when lt IS tlme A rattle of beads and a lxght step 1n the dxrectlon of the polnt of 1nterest mstantly put us mto a troubled sllence Soon after I hate to say It but 1t IS true Helen was at her nxghtly recreatlon talkmg and smgxng ln her sleep The clock m the hall struck one thlrty and we were all awake eagerly awamng the Issue of the tell tale hour Stxifened wlth cold and excltement we heard 2 OO o clock strlke We walted a second or two ln w1de eyed expec tatron then burst mto uncontrolled laughter Glrls the Joke s on us' Pearl or was lt SISICYD caught the alarm cloclc m tlme' Vlfglnla LaGrave 21 22 9 Q 1 7 9 s v , . - -..4 . ' 1 , - , 1 - J I ' ' ' ll V! ' s - ' as ' 79 - as 1 . . ,, . ' r as n ' ' 1 , T so ' ' 'P s . , . , . , . ' 9 9 ' 7 H . . . . . . ,, , . H U H . . . . ,, U . . . . ,, xc a n H . . . ,, , . on xr as . . . H , . . ' 1 1 , l - , , - u ' , . . . . , . H . . , . . , , . , . . . ,, . . . , , .

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Well my lands' You are Ralph Copeland R Who dxd you thmk I was? Why the jewlsh Rabbl of course They had a hearty good laugh over lt all Slster was transformed 1nto er own graclous self and returned wxth her newly drscovered fr1end to the parlor there to meet Gertrude and the real Rabbl ACT II Whlle Gertrude and the Rabbl were s1tt1ng m the 1ns1de parlor warttng for the D1rectress Slster X entered and seemg Gertrude thought that the young man accompanymg her was her nephew Ralph she greeted hrm enthus1ast1cally Slster X Welcome our own dear boy' Ctakmg h1s hands ln both of hers J The Rabbr looked surprlsed confused at thrs rather gushmg receptxon Gertrude S1ster' He rsnt Ralph He IS Rabbr Cohen Cpresentmg Slster X Q S1ster X Cwlth abated enthuslasmj I am pleased to meet you At th1s pomt the DIFCCIFESS and Ralph came upon the scene and found themselves partxclpants rn a verxtable Comedy of Errors Bernetta Hemp 21 THE PLAYROOM MIRROR A JUNE REVERIE I wonder lf I m growmg old? I never felt before As I feel now to see my gxrls Go out the Convent door They were a Jolly llvely set The best I ever had I hope they ll all come back thls fall I shall be very glad To see thelr brlght young faces when In front of me they stand I ve seen them m the mornmg when They feel so lnght and gay I ve seen them ln the1r mlddxes and Thelr bloomers start for play I ve shown them how they look thelr best In dark blue umformed They ve stood before me consclously In Fmery adorned Many a party I have seen And many a costume too Of falry dancer clown and wxtch Of varxed make and hue But there IS one thmg that I do, And thls I l1ke the best, 21 S , .4 99 .. , . . C , n ' ' va S , H - - vs .. , , . h l If ' Y! , . n ' 1 9 s 1 , . H ,, . . . .. , . ... ' ' H . . , . . ,, . - ' ' , xc u 7 ' ' - ' as as s L , I I r il . , . y 1. , . , . . 1 , . . . . , . , . , . , . y s 9 9 1 y

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ANY OLD LOCKER Ah me' how I m tr1ed' an abused locker-saad To a nelghbormg mlrror th1s story he slghed Wxth goodles and books-wlth everythmg welghted Reflected nn you I see how I m fated' There s always a sweater a novel a vexl Some Busy Bee boxes and cake pretty stale A racket for tenms sometxmes a ball A letter from Dems OJ I can t tell you all' One mldmght I held a frantic old dance Four footed guests came to mbble and prance Rolllckxng frohckmg shakmg their whlskers Tumblmg and munchrng the gay young frlskersl Ah me' the great dread of next week s clearmg Even old Hercules would End hrmself fearmg' But the very next day begms the old strlfe And over agam the self same l1fe Margaret Fairchild 21 D El A LITERARY RECITAL I had come to the Graduates Browmng Recntal wnth a vague feelmg that lt would be rather tlresome than otherwise and that I should be bored rather than entertamed But this feelmg was short l1ved for no sooner had the flrst g1rl begun ROBERT BROWNING AN APPRECIATION than I became Very much mterested Thls attltude of mlnd 1n whrch every one present found herself was due to two reasons F1rst of all the Graduates were exceptxonally fine readers they enunclated so clearly that lt was not necessary to straln one s ears to llsten Secondly the papers were very clev erly wrxtten Each theme was introduced m a way that compelled attentxon The d1v1s1ons of the subjects were clearly made and easxly followed our m creasmg 1nterest respondmg to thexr grow1ng rmportance I was dellghted that I could see ln the Graduates d1ct1on the qualmes that we Thxrd Academncs have been studymg umty coherence and empha s1s and I thoroughly enjoyed the beautrful examples of good Englnsh whrch the Graduates put before us m the1r Browmng essays Not only was the form of th1s Llterary attractrve but the matter was most enterta1n1ng as well The program showed an mtellrgent artlstxc selectxon from a vast and varled Held Mrs Brown1ng m her relatxons to her poet hero the romance of thelr love-one of the most beautxful m all llter ature thelr letters too sacred to be publlshed and yet so umquely obscure that they mlght be publlshed a hundred times and stlll remaln prlvate rnterpretatlons of the poems Plppa Passes wlth lts beautlful theme he power of unconsclous mlluence Andrea del Sarto wxth rts hxstory of two human souls as well as that of an art perxod Saul that poem of love human and d1v1ne The Rmg and the Book that wonder of vlewpomts Rabbi Ben Ezra and 1ts phllosophy of lxfe these are some of the subjects to whlch our Graduates treated us We are truly proud of them These two quotatlons from Browmng are well worth rememberlng O the lzttle more and how much It IS O the llttle less and what worlds away' but a man s reach should exceed hrs grasp what s a Heaven for' Gene Maloney 22 23 1 A ' ' 45 1 - 11 ' , . . . U . . . . - 1 - 1 11 u 1 ' 1 1 1 S K 1 1 -. Y ' Y H . . . ' 1 1 1 1 as 9 ' 1 ' 1 1 - ' 11 1 1 ' , ' ' ' , . , . . . . l n - , sc 11 , 1 . , ' 1 ' 1 1 . , . u 1 ' , - . . , . . . . 1 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 ' as ' 11 - 1 ' 1 ' I - , , - ss ' 11 - u 1 1 1 U . . . . . . .,, 1 1 . . i . . . . U - 1 , t - - in . . . 1 1 ' , ss 1 1 1 1 ' - ,11 - sc - - '11 1 1 1 ' ' u - - .11 - 1 1 sc ' - - , 1 , . ca 1 - Ah, , 1 so , Or, . - , ,