Christian College - Ivy Chain Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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N-.Z ff ,bf-, ..-,.-..,--,-.0 5 --A '-s-,-...-...........-w--- ARGUND THE CAMPUS that song will turn to a lullaby for the young nestlings, or the song of the happy worker as he scans the twigs seeking food for the young. It keeps old creatures busy providing for the babies so that they will be grown enough to fare for themselves by autumn. Even the fruit trees seem eager to grow as fast as possible to gain a more bountiful harvest. Every gardener has taken his plants from the shelf tered winter houses to the summer beds. Even the synthetic environment of El hothouse cannot surpass

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absorbing all the sunis warmth during the summer days, they might be able to retain it through the days of winter and keep from growing cold. Butterflies float without effort from flower to flower on the heavy perfumed air. Tiny humming birds G i RCDGERS MEMQRIAL g QGATEWAY with cool green feathers and flaming throats flash midst the everfblooming honeysuckle. Birds have put aside their' gay courting songs of springtime. Their mating days are over, and now it is a sweeter song that the bird sings to his mate on her nest. Soon

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fresh, outdoor air and rain. But every Wise gardener, has a hothouse Where he can control the environf ment of his plants and, through special cultivation and care, can bring them by summertime to fullest development of sturdy bodies and luxuriant fruit and 3 -l EAST CQRNEI2 GF -ST. CLAIR I-IALI. flower. If one could keep 'summertime the year round, of course there would be no use for the hot' house, which is only an imitation of the ideal. just at graduation Week the mock orange bushes on the campus blossom into a lovely shower of White.