Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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MONMOUTH COLLEGE MONMOUTH COLLEGE DEAR to every classical heart is the story of the heroism and loyalty of the Athenians in the brave days of old when Xerxes and his Persian host laid waste the Attic plain. Driven from their homes, their citv burned, and their temple desecrated, they sought refuge in their wooden walls and bravely renewed the struggle against a cruel fate. No time was lost in fruitless repining. At once they joined their sister states in an effort to check the triumphant course of the common enemy. But when their leader ventured to suggest a plan of action, his rivals reproached him with the fall of his own city and tauntingly reminded him that he was a man without a country. Themistocles replied : Athens is here in her ships. And the real Athens, under his wise leadership, won the victory, rebuilt the citv, fortified the harbor and made possible the Greater Athens of the Periclean Age, enriching the world with her philosophy and art Historv repeats itself. The Monmouth College that bad so endeared her- self to the hearts of her constituents during her fifty years of existence, must prove her right to maintain herself in the educational world by her ability to rally her forces in the face of disaster and seeming defeat. She has done so. The founders and pioneer faculty had builded a college that was not bounded by the blackened, tottering walls on her Acropolis, but was enshrined in the hearts of her students and friends. Everv son and daughter proved loyal, and her Themistocles, with faith tri- umphant o ' er his fears, felt no hesitancy in making large demands at the Council Board, for well was he assured that Monmouth College, though homeless, was here in her ships. The victory has been won. Monmouth is rebuilt, her cords lengthened, her stakes strengthened, her capacity enlarged, her influence extended, her outlook broadened, her responsibilities deepened.

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NINETEEN-TEN RAVELINGS

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NINE TEEN- TEN RAVELINGS Not in ;ui spirit of sclf-gratulation is this volume dedicated to the Greater Monmouth by loyal students who helped man the boats in the days of her wan derings, but because it lias been permitted them to bear a part in rendering pos- sible the coming Periclean Age of their Alma Mater. Monmouth: A centre of the past of time And rest of earth thou art : and at thy birth Methinks the heav ' ns bent low. From heart to earth Thy walls were carved. From ev ' ry distant clime Come gifts. The lore of ages past is thine. And all their store of art and thought and worth: The spark divine that on lime ' s dawn gleamed forth. Since grown to flame, upon thee full doth shine. Heir of the ages thou! Yet golden domes Ma throw far back into the void the light ( )f day : within the altar-fires c infine. Thy newer halls. ( ) Monmouth, are but homes herein the thought of man may grow more bright For comingf men. Thus he thou Wisdom ' s shrine.