Maryville College - Chilhowean Yearbook (Maryville, TN)

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InM emoriam Re -. Elmer Britton Waller, M.A. 1859—1913. Dean and Professor of Mathematics and Political Economy. The color of ground was in him, the red earth; 1 he smell and smack of elemental things: The rectitude and patience of the cliff; The good will of the ram that loves all leaves; The friendly welcome of the wayside well; The courage of the bird that dares the sea; The gladness of the wmd that shakes the corn; The mercy of the snow that hides all scars; The secrecy of streams that make their way Beneath the mountain to the rifted rock; The undelaying justice of the light. That gives as freely to the shrinking flower. As to the great oak flaring to the wind — To the grave ' s low hill as to the Matterhorn That shoulders out th; sky. — Markham. Major Ben Cunningham 1840—1914. Treasurer and Business Manager of Maryville College. Mourn for the man of amplest influence. Yet clearest of ambition ' s crime. Our greatest yet with least pretence. Great in council and great in war, •t- ¥ ¥ V Rich in saving common-sense And as the greatest only are In his simplicity sublime. O good grey head- which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fallen at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew I Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o ' er. — Tennyson. IS

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Foreword The Class of Nineteen Fourteen writes this foreword. We are on the dividing Hne between education ' s pleasant pasture lands and life ' s vast boundless practicalities. The world says, we college men and women are unpractical — let the world try us. , It is true, we have not faced the stern, dread things that experience brings; we have not dealt with men after their infirmities and whims and fancies, but thru the years of youth we have come, reading the unforgetable records of those who were worth while, tracing in the sands of time, those whose footprints remain there still, — ineffacable forever. And with their spirit, made ours through the heritage of the years, we stand untried but unafraid at the beginning of the way. To those who love old Maryville, for memory ' s sake, because of what she has meant in moulding character and directing destiny; to those who love her now because they reap the harvest of her riper years; to all who love old Alma Mater, greeting. This book is our farewell to memory-hallowed academic haunts; to college hill and college days; it is as truly our challenge to the world, upon whose threshold now we stand, ready to serve it even in the spirit of our motto — Reperiemus viam aut faciemus. 20