College of the Holy Cross - Purple Patcher Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Today Weakness of immaturity. Now the task is done and, as We gaze upon our handiwork, We are content and proud in the belief that We have Wrought as best We might. Nevertheless, our pride and our contentment in a task Well done are overshadowed by another feeling, a feeling of sincere gratitude to those men of keen intellects and understanding hearts Who guided our inexperienced hands, bore patiently with our many Weaknesses, and made the task possible of fulhlment.

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