Castleton State College - Castletone Yearbook (Castleton, VT)

Page 16 text:

AND THE GROPING THRONG, BEWILDERED WITH SUFFERING, ASKS OF YOUTH, “AND HOW DO YOU KNOW? — AND HOW DO YOU KNOW, WE ASK OF YOU? (ONCE THERE WAS WHEN WE THOUGHT WE KNEW.) AND YOUTH REPLIES, “I BEG OF YOU— REMEMBER WITH ME, HOW A SWIRLING EARTH BROKE BONDS AND COOLED. AND OUT OF THE TURMOIL OF PULSING LIFE LIFTED A NEW, A RISING ORDER,— FROM CHAOTIC RUIN A STRUCTURE ERECTED! FROM CHARRED SURFACE AN ORDER ESTABLISHED! AND YOUTH CONTINUES, “I PLEAD WITH YOU— twelve

Page 15 text:

“COME WITH ME, BEWILDERED AND WONDERING PEOPLE! TIRED AND WORN WITH FEAR AND TORN FROM THE BONDS THAT HELD YOU, CRUSHED IN YOUR SHATTERED, PORCELAIN CULTURES, YOUR STRONG, NEW BEAMS CRASHING AROUND YOU. LEAVE THAT WORLD OF BESPATTERED SPACE, LEAVE BEHIND YOUR SMOKING RUINS, BURY YOUR CLUTTERS OF DEGENERATE FLESH CRYING AND SHRIEKING IN THE WASTE. TAKE UP YOUR BROKEN FIBERS OF COURAGE, TAKE UP YOUR HOPES, YOUR DREAMS, YOUR FAITH, RISE FROM DESPAIR AND BRING THESE WITH YOU— I, YOUTH, WOULD HAVE YOU COME!’’ eleven

Page 17 text:

REMEMBER WITH ME, THINK WITH ME: AN AVALANCHE OF ICE ONCE CAPPED THE EARTH AND HID WITHIN ITS TREACHEROUS FOLDS THAT WHICH LATER WAS TO BECOME OUR WORLD! AND DID NOT FROM ITS CHEERLESS WASTES COME FORTH NEW LIFE? — STRIVING, STRUGGLING TO LIFT, TO RISE, TO BUILD AND CREATE? AND REMEMBER AGAIN, LONG YEARS FROM THEN, TRIUMPHANT PHILOSOPHERS CLIMBING TO BUILD. REMEMBER ONE— OUR JESUS CHRIST, SILENTLY SUFFERING THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE. AT LAST HE GAINED THE FAITH OF A PEOPLE, AND THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION NOW OFFERS TO YOU— THE STRENGTHENING BONDS OF BROTHERLY LOVE, HOPE AND COURAGE, FAITH AND PEACE! thirteen