Bridgewater College - Ripples Yearbook (Bridgewater, VA)

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COMING UP COLLEGE STREET after a Walk was like coming home, in a way. Everything was so friendly and familiar. Here was a street Where you could take your time. Meeting a friend you stopped to talk a minute, and even meeting a stranger you al- ways smiled and said hello. It was that kind of a street. We shall Walk Wider streets, no doubt, noisier, brighter, gaudier, and meet so many marionettes in masks. Remembering College Street, perhaps We may feel less lonely, knowing how friendly a street can be. Er f L- . :wmv sf x- -if feffrees :LQ ,lgfffgis ,ff g ., A f sz- fn gr- - mgzfigrrff ' or a K It -, 'zffe .'NL-,gJZ2 f' 'Pye' - .fr ibwfwfi Wrffi s H Us. Ut . edeew .fuQsZS.,,L:w1HMM rf.. ' M1 fL5f.:g13pw2wgg.. Sweet? grew' M1-giQ:11H-wigzwafeaf swirl N ' M 'ffvrw 1 NX Z'i.fsv u'z1e i HJQSETL.. U ' . H-i-MNVT rf -.3 F Q, Qlfswk M gimmsgrg: 5-.PR ---- Mfr, giggsrlgsi- H ., Alrgwsz- M - liiifw' '

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1' SOMETHING ABOUT A RIVER makes you pause. Where it flows fast, the rip- ples invite your mind to tra- vel: Where it is still and deep, reflections beckon to another world. Its flow is the flow of time, yet there is something of the eternal in its beautiful changes. Prodigal of invitations, old North River said to u s , Come and swim, come and fish, come and skate, or at least come and look! If we lived in Yount or Wardo we could hear it murmur on a still night, Come, go to sleep. And something about a river is an invitation to a dream.

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THE FRIENDLINESS CDF THIS STREET didn't come altogether from meeting friendly people. There was a human warmth in the very trees and houses, the hed- ges, lawns and flowerbeds. How many plantings of how many flower seeds, how many strokes of rake and hoe and mower, how many clippings of a hedge, how many shovelsful of snow scooped from the walk, how many such simple acts of loving-kindness did it take to give this street its personality-like a friend you could depend on?