University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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and the retiring modesty of my classmates adds a protest against allowing confidential acquaintanceship to proclaim their individual virtues, or even their Christian names. But facts speak for themselves. Blackened paths of progress through hide-bound crvpts of learning have in the alchemic alembic of studious thought brightened into golden bauds of knowledge whose width and wealth a startled jiosteritv is to Ix-hold. A single genius has already applied modern physics to political problems and nullified election turmoil by devolving the presidential choice on an “electrical college.” The halls of eloquence have blushed to own a former attention to Toombs or Hill or Grady, and literary honors, the honest recognition of literary merit, have showered down at the majestic thunder of law class oratory. Though giant intellect can refuse to allow its bodily supj ort to stoop to physical contests, our class has not lacked athletic distinction; and when longer days and less arduous duties .afford opjwrtunities for the field, let com] ctitors hide out. Nor have the lawyers allowed themselves, nor been allowed 3 (2 by others at interest, t forget that a heart was of the anatomy of even a legal frame; ami maiden smiles and maiden blushes are the tell-tale records that betray attendance on Cupid’s court. But stronger than the bonds that bind even when Hymen forecloses Cupid’s mortgage on the heart arc the ties that have been woven here between man and man in the endless contentions over rights, wrongs and remedies. Silken in their softness, silver in their brightness, lmt steel in their lasting strength. That union is our crowning achievement and glory. Can these thirty-seven strong young souls, armed with the sage decrees of the Georgia legislature, hut escape the pulpit and starvation, the Scvlla and Charvhdis of the legal profession, deeds will doubtless be done that will cause the very sun in heaven to rise each day to view them anew, the stars to blink in wonderment over them, and the winds to sigh, and the clouds to weep in envv at them. But I transgress upon the prophet’s sphere, and with an apology for the harmless trespass I resign the function of Histoiman. )

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 Plje pernor (plass. I. They :irc “drifting away from each other” After all the sweet friendship of years; Kacli faec is the face of a brother, With eyes that seem misty with tears. II. The links of the post must lie broken— The past with its mystical spell; While the pain of the parting is spoken In a song and a sigh of farewell! III. How dear were the friendship that bound them As one in that lieautifu) past, And tenderly haloed around them A light that will linger and last. IV. A light whose soft beams will caress them And temper the world and its strife; Its beauty a joy that will bless them And brighten the pathway of life. V. Hut a joy that surpasses all other In fullest fruition is theirs: They part with the smile of a mother Whose sons are her sons through the years! (29)