Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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Our Prexy ANOTHER year has yet to pass, Dr. McMichael, before we leave at last these college halls and the spreading circle of your influence. But before we start that final lap we pause to reflect and then to let you know what we have been thinking. How vividly we remember that first contact with your virile personality, with what a glow of beaming piide to the beat of a hastening heart we gripped your hand in ours. Favored with the blessing of your friendship we saw the clouds fade from an uncertain sky on the morning of our college life. As we have revelled in the spirit of old M. C, as we have learned to honor her traditions and revere her ideals, as we have taken our places, one by one, in the niches of opportunity which she offers, our esteem for you may have seemed to wane and lose the ardor which saw it rise, — all because we ' ve been busy. So forgive us, Dr. McMichael, if we have for a time lost to view that power and the personality which have made these years an education, which have cast the mold that has shaped a little our habits of thought and industry. Though occupied with duties more and more our own we pause to remind you, Dr. McMichael, that we respect you, and we shall always cherish the memory of our contact. a f Fourteen