Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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nAnd departing, leave behind us FOOT PRINTS in the sands of time. If you have walked along Jrhe waler's edge and noled your lracks 'In The sand. and +hen lumped away a Few feel To escape an incoming wave. you have nofed +ha+ your Tracks were oblH-eral'ecl as The wafer churned +he sand info new lormaflons. ll +his was The poel's image of The sands of Time we could nof Cherish any great hope of Tracing our Toof-prinls anywhere Tn lifel Nor would campus Fool-sfeps be an excepflon. Indeed d0 nol The years here more quickly erase Jrhe marks made by any sfudenl gen- eralion? Four years and a complelely new sludenl body is on The scene. A score of years and even Jrhe lacul'ry is largely new. The recurring waves remove +he old records and eslablish new ones. The faces of youfh are Turned +0 The lulure. The pasl Fades raplclly away. So if mighf seem. Buf +0 one who has wlfnessed a number of SN: denl' generalions come and gel The poef's image isn'+ Convincing. For human relaflonshlps are nof llke grains 0T sand. College life is ralher +0 be compared +0 +he growlh cl 5 Jrree. Each season ex+ends l'he branches. multiplies +he leaves. l'rHs The crown, deepens +he roofs. Ring grows upon ring and The Trunk is greafer and sfronger. Wha+ happens in any season leaves some mark. some change of shape. some developmenl of form of Jrhe Tree. so +haf al any lime The whole is The resull of all That has gone belore. The peel or na+uralis+ mighl desaibe +he +ree as The sum of all The seasons H has wll'nessecli each joyful spring in whlch fhe birds have hailed Jrhe rislng sun. each glowing aufumn when all The colors have painlecl a summer's climaxl each winlry sform +es+ing +he lorlured slrenglh of Jrhe bendlng boughs. The fracas of each sfudenf year are found in Augusl'ana's charac- ter, in ifs ideals and Jtraditions. ifs memories and ifs hopes. Here are wriHenl in indellble Teafures. whal' were Jrhe purposes served in any day or year of campus life. The fool-sleps may have vanished -fhe goals +0 which +hose slaps +urned can nol be losl. - Conrad Bergendofl

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Andreen Hall Denkmann Memorial Library