Henderson State University - Star Yearbook (Arkadelphia, AR)

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Uribe lass nf 1908 li have been cantioneil thus by the wisest man the ages have X known, l1oast not thyself of iovmorrow, for thou knowest not what a tlav may bring forth. l.et another man praise thee anfl not thy own lips. .Xml yet we are going to follow the beaten path antl .lisregartl this atlvice in two ways, first by speaking of the future with its bright prospects. anal seconcl by relating' our own history. lYe tlo this not because we clo not think that this is goofl atlvice, but because we think that after we have taken a flegree in llentlerson College we will he wiser by far than Solomon in all his glory ever hopecl to be, lYe prefer to write our own biography because we flo not think that any other one will give ns justice. The hrst victim of greatness whom we shall see is Kliss Lou Clark. .Xlthough words may fail us ancl our pen may tremble when we face the insur- mountable obstacle of recorcling the qleefls of one so illustrious. our earnest DYHXCY is that the guartlian angel of prose may guizle our pen. liorn on the ocean of joy, rockerl in the craflle of the mleep, rearerl on the imposing beach where balmy breezes blow, the wontler is how she eoultl leave her happy home at lleirne on the Coast and cast her lot with such a quiet anal unassuming class of people as those who infest the halls of Henrlerson, XYe may safely juilge that she will either be a missionary to some tlesert anrl uninhabitel islancl, or cast her lot in a nunnery. Surely she will never treatl the path in which wretched man has set his foot. Her opinion of men is that they are all green. XVhen we were calletl upon to write about Miss Kathleen Gooclga-ine, at tirst we refused, not because we thought ourselves incompetent but because we clifln't have time, However, after being persuatlecl that we were the only ones worthy of such an arrluous task. we acceptetl with pleasure. XYe can say much about her past but this volume will holtl only a small part of her future, for there is a 'young gentleman of this school in love with this fair laqly an4l every one knows what love-stories mean. The conclusion of the whole matter is this, They were marriecl and livecl happily ever afterwarrlsf' llut quite often this is not true, for all do not live like the picture we see. llut we are sure that this will be a happy union, for no one who knows her can picture a man with heart so black, so base, so voirl of conscience, who coulcl not live in peace with such a one as she. 'XYe know that she will meet with unbounclecl happiness upon the high- way of life. lt has always been a custom of the lnrlians, antl is fast becoming that of the whites, to choose as their rulers ancl aclvisors the olwler anQl more experi- enced men of their race. XYe have triecl to keep abreast of the times and have chosen, and chosen well, Nr. .X. tl, Grayrlon to act as our chief. We have selected him to guicle and tlirect our footsteps over the stormy paths of college life because he had more experience before we made our entrance upon the stage in the clrama of life than we have harl since that time. llis form gracetl the halls of Henmlerson long before llenjamin Franklin memorizetl the multiplication table. He is a gentleman of the prehistoric type, wise in council. courtly' in society, stern in commanfl. 'llhrough the journey of his life we are absolutely certain that his path will be strewn with tokens of love ancl gooclwill ancl that he will go to his rewartl as he has gone through school. On llowery bells of ease. 14

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If worthier hands than ours had attempted to paint a picture of one so fair as Miss Maud Harper, they would have succeeded only in part. lint since the task is ours we will rise nobly to the occasion and present to your optics a vague idea of this lovely maiden. XYe have sharpened our wits on the grindstone of knowledge to do homage to this Louisiana llelle. Un a summer's day in the month of May fortune smole one broad lingering sznile upon the home of DV. Harper. Miss Maud is the maiden with the smile that won't come off. XXI- hope that life will be one long lovely smile to her. Michael .Xngelo has come and gone. Miss Harper has come midst loud applause. She has not yet gone and quite likely never will, but when she shall have painted her masterpiece, dear old Mike will be thrown into the ashbarrel with the has-beens. ller future, like her past, will be many times brighter than the milky way. If beauty be made the test of knowledge our class-mate. Nr. Vernon lean. is easily the wisest student in our midst. XYbether beauty is the proper standard bv which to judge -wisdom or not we do not know, but this we do know, that in his case this fact is true. Profound utterances upon all momentous questions of the day pour from his mouth continually like molasses from the bung-hole of the universe. VVhere he came from nobody knows, where he treads the paths of research and discovery nobody goes. I-le is small of stature, but it is a universal truth, as we learn from Psychology. that good stuff is always done up in small packages. The walls of dear old llenderson have never inclosed one who had a clearer and more definite knowledge of Psychology than this noble American youth. In class, facts about this great science roll from his mouth like the wild rush of the cataract flown the steep declivities of the mountain-side. From present indications Mr, Jean will be a medical doctor of that class who say Throw physic to the dogs, but through the long lane of life he will always have our sympathy, On a beautiful spring morning the home of Klr. and Mrs. Ketchem was brightened by a dream of beauty, a beautiful specimen, from the flower garden of humanity, and ever since that time the loveliness of that spring morning has been symbolized by the life of this fair maiden. lllherever she goes she carries the sunshine of goodwill and unselfisbness. .Xnd yet she has been unfair to a certain extent by making a special case of one young man in this institution. lt seems to us that he receives more of the sunlight of love and affection than any one human being is entitled to. However, we are inclined to believe that when the shadows have a little longer grown, when the present crisis has reached its climax, our present friend and schoolmate will brighten the world with her kindness and will become the benefactress of the human race. XVe long for the time to come when she shall have reached the zenith of her glory, and we can all say with the learned Ben johnson. That lady was a class-mate of mine. In every age, in every clime. it matters not what the occupation or sur- roundings are, there are those who tower above the common herd. So it is in study where Miss Mamie Locke so easily surpasses the common mob of students. Since her childhood days, when she wandered in the meadows among butter- cups and clover blossoms and chased the butterdy from flower to flower, when she waded in the laughing waters of the mountain stream and played with the fishes in the rippling brook, she has ever worked onward and upward with this one thought uppermost. Hlfnowledge. knowledge. get knowledge. jXnd thus she towers to the sublime heights of learning and pours out wisdom on class like sunshine from a summer sky. Her mission on this terrestrial 'ball is to proclaim the rights of woman, to prove to the world that woman is intellectually man's equal, and to demonstrate to the ages that man has no monopoly on learning. 15