Berea High School - Prima Luce Yearbook (Berea, NC)

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Instruction from one more expert in this line, And one in whose presense a girl is at ease On either a mountain or in the sea breeze.” VIII This greeted a chorus of sniffs from the parents, Who angrily said, “Bring this young man before us, If you will not caution the youngster, we will — We mean business ; no waiting, contentions, or fuss.” IX The daughters departed but quickly returned. And accompanying them was the swimming instructor — A creature quite handsome, but slightly sunburned. Some one said, “Meet Miss Reggin, the Olympian Star.” X So this was the unscrupulous lad of the ocean — Her reticent voice and her boyish hairtrim, And masculine bathing attire had caused the commotion — ■ No wonder! Her body was lithe and athletic and slim. XI And the wrath of the fathers now faded away; The reproach of the mothers existed no more. Few were chagrined and some others had nothing to say, While many gave outbursts of laughter as heard on occasions before. XII It was rumored that in the confusion and joy, That some one ventured to ask the instructor, That since the delusion was over and she was no longer a boy, If she cared to give lessons in swimming to gentlemen. — Orlando Stone.

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PRIMA LUCE And So It Goes Not many summers ago at Wentworth-by-the-Sea There arrived a new swimming instructor of unknown fame. Whose art was supurb and whose nations were ree Which subjected the brawnier life-guards to sliame. II A nd soon without any soliciting, effort or pain, On the part of the teacher for pupils to teach, Tire ' number enrolled in the classes increased by a flourishing train, And many a favorite lass wandered now to the beach. III Ami many a matron discharged an expression of scorn, ‘ Hut sUently nourished 3er-beaten and worn, for his youth unstung, IV An AewTy £ inslS daughters ; v a 3 ™ 51 irKl ‘ ’tissue, bTat least we can see.” VI VII Demurely the daughters replied, “Nothing ' s wrong, to be sure, The teacher is clever, the watei is fine, In fact parents dear, it would he hard to secure [ Page 107 ]

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THE SEVEN WISE MEN were variously named even in Greece. The following translations of a Grecian doggerel gives one version. “I’ll tell the names and sayings and the places of then hirth Of the seven great ancient Sages, so renowned on Grecian earth. The I Indian Cleobulus said, ‘The man was still the best’ ; The spartan Chilo, ‘Know thyself,’ a heaven-born phrase confessed ; Corinthian Periander taught ‘Our anger to command’ ; ‘Too much of nothing,’ Pittacus, from Mitylene’s strand ; Athenian Solon this advised, ‘Look to the end of life’ ; And Bias from Priene showed ‘Bad men are most rife’; Milesian Thales urged that ‘None should e’er a surety he’ ; Few were these words, but, if you look, you’ll much in little see. ’ — Collin’s Ancient Classics. IN departing, Old Berea, we spontaneously recall Sophocles’ famous chorus in OEdepus at Colunus, describing the beauties of the country: Here ever and aye , through the greenest vale, Gush the wailing notes of the Nightingale, From her home where the dark-hued ivy weaves With the grove of the god a night of leaves; And the vines blossom out from the lonely glade, And the suns of the summer are dim in the shade, And the storms of the winter have never a breeze That can shiver a leaf from the charmed trees. And wandering there forever, the fountains are at play, And Cephissus feeds his river from their sweet urns day by day; The river knows no dearth, Adown the vale the lapsing waters glide, And the pure rain of that pellucid tide Calls the rife beauty from heart of earth.