Black Hills State University - Eoicha Yearbook (Spearfish, SD)

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Let the simplicity of our word and deed contrast strongly with the excellence of the man we would honor here on the four hundredth observance of his birth. By that contrast does his merit become more apparent. He was and remains a giant among those who would speak of man to men. Once he asked, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays by what miracle shall men preserve their heritage? He answered, And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. By his pen he ensnared the whole of humanity so that men of every kind, country, creed, and generation may understand. It is to the universality of his art and to the man that our efforts imprinted here are offered in commemoration of William Shakespeare. Awarded to John Shakespeare, l594, according to the Lawes of Armes the privilege of bearing a cote of armes depicting a falcon with wings displayed, standing on a ......:..... .0......... 00.0.0.0.0 wrethe of his coullers, supporting a speare; .:::::3: with a shield of gould on a bend of sables i t and a speare of the first steeled argent. .00... IO... 10.. .

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