Radcliffe College - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Class Poem s we -ee st Class Poem Fresh in the dawn of the morning, 'We rose in our new life's today, And our Mother gave us her counsel, Pleading trust in her teachings alway. 4 Go! she said, go seek your hearts desire, Seek it wherever it be,- Q Yet Heaven grant that your dreams' chosen gurl Be the land of Truth, o'er the sea! I have loved that land, I have lived its life, And felt its pulse-beats thrill: , Fain would I have you love that land, Your souls' fairest dreams to fulfil! Ye, are bearing away a Talisman, TA priceless, time-old charni, VVhose light, that pierces the heart of things, Can banish all shadow of harm. Put ye but trust in the charni, And 'twill guide your reckless youth: 'Twill guard you from every alluring land Save the eternal land of Truth. But the way is long and hard, And your hearts must needs be hrave: There are hills and desert wastes to cross. And rolling worlds of dreary wave. Dauntless and unafraid, i We vowed we would win our goal: .-Xrmed with the charni, we would seek the land lf need lie, from pole to pole. 18

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Class History D E Many institutions have arisen in our day. Student Govern- ment, for the first time, was established at Radcliffe our Freshman year. In that year, also, the library and Grace Eliot Hall were new. VVhile the new dormitory, Sarah Whitman Hall, will not be built in our time,-I mean by that our undergraduate years,-yet in 1911 money was left for it and a sum of 310,000 towards scholar- ships. , This year, for the first time, we entered Harvard dramatics through trials, not just by invitaftions. The most important change in college organizations which we have seen was the Amalgama- tion of the Emmanuel Club, the Christian Association, and the College Settlement Chapter. With such a representative as Doro- thy Coit, IQII may feel that it has established the Pillar of the Radcliffe Guild. The most inspiring feature in our history we must all agree is that our last year at Radcliffe was Miss Coes' first year as Dean. This is the first thing we shall tell our Freshmen's Fresh- men and our Freshmen's Freshmen's Freshmen. Miss Coes was always our best adviser, and our college career lasted long enough for us to have her so in name as well as in fact. Through her services before our time and during it, we are proud of the Rad- cliffe of the past, with Miss Coes as Dean, we graduate with such confidence in our hearts for the Radcliffe to be, that I envy the Historian of the future. C.iRo1.1Ni2 Sous. 17

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Class Poem But time came when we were tempted sore, And spoke of the Talisman with idle jest,- W'hen some, for a moment of empty play, E'en would have cast the charm away, To knock at the garish gates of the land Where earthly desire held sway. Yet on to the goal afar we marched, Though the way lay drear o'er crag and mere, And some were scorched and parched. On to the goal! 'l was still our cry, That earth and stars might hear, Wliile something within us swept us along, Swept those who were starved and patched along, To the very verge of the sea. Men called it the ocean of human desire, VVhere human souls are tossed, Wl1ere lives rise reaching,-yearning Like rearing wave-crests,wthen are lost! The crushing arch of the sky swung down Like a weight, when we breasted the sea, To battle with lashing, seething surge, It seemed for eternity. Sudden, we were gulped by a shrouding mist, And the black ocean heaved its neck To laugh at our groans, when we heard the moans From a grating, reef-dashed wreck. A moody, crouching sea it seemed, Poised ready to spring on its prey, An all-soothing, saving sea it proved, Bringing peace at the end of that day. For lo! like a star-tipped, Heaven-sent dart, Whence no weary eye could see, Came a gossamer glow of mellow light,4 A land-unlocking key! 19