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THE CA RD1 NAI {Tijc ong of tlje ftemor (Wifh due apology to ttoberi W. Serviee) When the long, long course is over and the day of Commencement comes. And 1 know that il will be regretful to part with dear Normal and thee All I ' ll need then is a contract, a contract signed by me. Look at my hands, ink-spattered, look at my furrowed brow; Doctor. I ' ve done thy bidding, did il as best ' knew how. Night after night have I labored, by the aid of a flickering light: I ' ve done thy desire with spirited tire; I await the results of the tight. I have used the knowledge thou hast giv en, thou knowest this to be true. Two long years of labor — I have served them and am through. And now. Oh! Doctor. I ' m tired and lonely and bent and marred. Rut I ' ve done my work, and thou knowest, and thou will not judge me hard. Thou knowest my failings are many, and often I ' ve played the fool Tor oft and anon on test days, I ' ve neglected to conic to school. I was wasteful with time in those days. I killed it with nary a care. Going to movies and dances, or buying something foolish to wear. Then after a test, back rcpentent. back to the long day ' s grind, I. the student of students, everything in my mind. Everything there hut study ( I ' d no idea what it meant). A youth with a youth ' s understanding, so day alter day came and went ; Never a night that I stayed in. could I settle down to my task; Always something to bother, always a question to ask. A youth with youth ' s ambitions, I ' d no intentions to shirk — Yet I ' d gladly have given anything, to he able to get down to work. I. with a thirst for knowledge, yet young and carefree and gay — Yet how I did long to be learned, to get in Life ' s Game and play ! Well, ' tis thy school, and thou knowest. Thy kindly advice I did spurn: Hut I ' ve done my work as I got it. and I ' ve done my best to learn; I. a youth, one of many, who go groping through life for the light. Searching where ' er I happen, striving with all of my might: Struggling on. uncomplaining, working with jealous content; Slaving from daylight to darkness, spurning the thought to relent; Driving fiercely on to the finish, preparing a seat in the sun. Defiant, resolute, unrelcntless. ' til the work of life is done. Doctor. I ' ve complied with thy wishes, the decision must he your own; Not by my faults wilt thou judge me. hut by the spirit I ' ve shown. Doctor. I ' ve done thy bidding, and my days at Normal arc few. And the looked-for day is coming- may all my wishes come true; Doctor. I ' ve made an enviable friendship— a friendship — with you. I hope that it won ' t be lying, to say all my work is done. Low mid 15. Donns. II
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It lias been no purpose of ours to mold you into merely cloistered students habituated solely to the con- templation of the eternal worth of thought and the pre- eminence of the prophet and the seer . We have planned for you an intensely constructive career which shall have small space for egoism and shall require that you employ your highest cultural possessions of intellect and heart as instruments to he used in tangible and synthetic fashion for the positive betterment of that portion of the world in which your lot may fall. It is our trust that you will meet your serious duties with industry, with earnestness and with wisdom — with the patriotic devotion of highbred Americans and with all the bold initiative which is characteristic of America at her best. 1U
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