Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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1-1 2 Co the Zlass oi l90l. HE CLASS OF 1902 brings its choicest offerings of regard and esteem to sacrifice upon the altar of friendship. We break the alabaster box of love at your feet, with the hope that its fragrance shall not lose itself upon the desert air of time, nor the chilling frosts of winter blight its purity and sweetness. We have gathered it upon the broad land of the past with its hill and dale and valley, from life's rarest flowers, an unselfish motive, a Kindly act, a noble deed, all of which you have strewn about you during our long acquaintance now about to be broken. Your absence shall be deeply felt by us, and as we take your places, hallowed by sweet memories, we shall step softly as on holy ground. In the silence of the roll-call you will be as comrades missing, not as fallen by the wayside, but enrolled in larger fields. Heap the campfire of the bivouac until its leaping flames shall be to us as a signal for the rally and advance. was 4 .mr

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am a man. There exists no prob- , ability that you will comprehend '55 the profound significance of that statement. .' I am a man, not a child, nor a woman, but , afu!!-grown man. I have no inclination to labor in the athletic field, and, concern- ing football, I never indulge, these sports belong to the realm of boyhood or to the brute kingdom. Ido not cook, nor do I scrub, neither is washing dishes in my line, such is the vocation of woman. I am a being distinguished from all other animals by the power of reason and speech, a man in the service 5. , 'r of the King. Ibecame a living soul some thirty years ago. Since then time has been employed to render me what I now am- one possessing all the essential qualities inherent in man- hood, not effeminate and anything but a dude. I am, YC. VCO? VU, if