all, the best, surely there was none other like it because you can remember it. Ah, for the good old days-but you don't come back, only the leaves come back. But memories are cheap. Some have watched it a long time and it's always the same, but it was only once for you and l you remember it: the sadpleasant song of the iuke box, th e walk with the girl in the blue-flow- ered dress, the chimes at ten o'clock, Sunday afternoon quiet h o u r, a nd t e tired, wonderful feeling at the end of the day when your team ,E 5 M 'ch had won. 5 There were 52 55 chemistry experi- ments to perform, I if accounting to get up, counterpoint to do, Spanish to read, Trig., and there were his- tory quizzes and book reports, f i n al e x a m s, beauties and cheerleaders to choose. There must, there must have b e e n a t i m e once, when you dreamed of the A fair one far into t h e w a k e f u l dawn and then wandered over the lawn the following day trying to stay awake, when the 'last bus ran at half past twelve and the basketball team marched on to glory. The leaves come back and the oak trees stand as silent sentries in the purple dusk. Yes, the leaves come back each spring, and the faded red bricks and stones take the wind and the rain, collecting dignity with the years. The laughter still splits the twilight, the ivy still con- tinues to climb, the lawn mowers, the lamp posts with their plaques, the double decker beds, the pin-up pic- tures, the mail boxes, the class rings-they're all still there. And so are your own particular brand of ghosts, laughing in the dusk, for thev lived well and they stepped on the same walks and , steps, leaned 5 against the same Q E trees, sat on the s a m e s t o n e benches, and swilled the same Q. great draughts of joy. e , That happened S along in 1946 and '47 and '48 , and '49 and you liked , those years M best because A they were yours to guard and e cherish, iust like the others before is and after them. all 21 You sit there -2 i ,L non a Sunday 3 afternoon many gf g years hence, gl reading these it lines. You don't come back, you are scattered - like milkweed, T i only the leaves 3 ' come back, but 'Te 5 in the dark night ig - ' sometimes the 5 1 y , breeze-comes whipping back off the campus, the stainless steel tower with the lights in the quadrangle far below looms up and the rich red wine runs hot within you again and you are drunk with the remembrance of it all. - The Editor ,W .7 ,W .
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