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

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Holy Cross HIS BOOK is as a block of stone that has been four years in the hewing, a block of stone upon which vve have chiseled the modest record of our achievements, a block of stone which We now take up with reverent hands and place upon that still incomplete but even now cloud chal- lenging Tower that is the honored tradition of Holy Cross. Four years ago the task loomed great before us and We began it with some misgivings, for our hands were unskilled and our minds and hearts were weak with the

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PURPLE PA TCI-IER 1934 THE COLLEGE

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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.