University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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3 NX LE Mrs .5 mf fewrgzsfizvf e will s. is . nr in sm i cc w fy The Monument The soldier stood upon his height, A grey-clad figure dreaming. Amid the boughs and light of leaves And chequered sunlight streaming. His gaze was distant, far beyond The horizon's purple dimnessg Lamar and Science's frowning fronts Lent academic grimness. Below him jocund voices trailed, Nor knew nor felt his gleaming: A lofty land-marlc, cold and white. We could not grasp its meaning. Our soldier stood upon his height, Khaki-clad figure seeming To strive to catch the hand outstretched From which the blood was streaming. His gaze was distant, far beyond The horizon's purple dimnessg Flanders' and France's bleeding cries Lent passion high to grimness. Below him vermin-voices trailed, Nor lcnew nor felt his meaningg His soul flamed forth the radiance bright, The Torch flung to him, gleaming. Oh Soldier, standing on thy height, Thy grey-clad figure gleaming. Amid the sighing night-winds shades And misty moonbeams dreaming. Thy gaze is distant, far beyond The horizon's purple dimness, Where poppies blown the crosses 'mong Lend restful peace to grimness. Before thee, awed, our voices hush. We feel we catch thy gleaming. Oh, Soldier nailed to the Cross Thou'st taught to us thy meaning! Page eight

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LE, QMUSQ' C - 'E' H E Y ,,..,..'?SZ,, cyl.. Our Heroic Dead ROBERT M. CAMPBELL Robert M. Campbell graduated from the University in I9l7, being awarded the degree of Bachelor of Law. He was practicing his profession in Kosciusko when he entered the service of his country. On ac- count of a physical defect he was rejected for active service and enlisted in the Y. M. C. A. work at Grenada, Miss., on May the eleventh, nineteen hun- dred and eighteen. After taking a course of train- ing at Blue Ridge, North Carolina, Camp jackson, and Columbia University, he sailed from New York on july the twenty-third and reached London August the twenty-eighth. From here he went to Paris, remaining there for one week, after which he was placed on active duty in a Y hut Somewhere in France. While here he contracted influenza and pneumonia and died on September the fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. He was buried in an American Military Cemetery by a group of his fellow workers of the Y. M. C. A. ln the words of one who knew him as a Y. M. C. A. worker, He was a fit representative of the Young Men's Christian Association and an honor to his country. ORIN DUNCAN Orin Duncan enlisted in the Marine Corps at Memphis in the spring of l9l8. After training at Paris Island for a short while he was sent across, landing in Brest. France, September the twenty-third, and after a brief illness of meningitis died on the twenty-eighth of the same month. He attended the University during the sessions of l9l6-'l7, and 'l7-'l8, graduating in law in the spring of l9l8. He was a quiet, unassuming and well liked young fellow and was one of the two Ole Miss men who died while in the service of the Marine Corps. Page mnc