Columbia College - Columbian Yearbook (Columbia, SC)

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As juniors we went again to the Fair, and stood examinations, and went home for vacations. As Juniors, we-some of us-were veritable Pattys at Boarding School, but All work and no play makes Iaclc a dull boy, and as luniors we entertained the departing Seniors in the Spring with a reception. fllhe Administration Building was now completed, and in the spacious halls and parlors our reception was a scene of beauty. There was music, and there were flowers, and there were gallant lords, and lovely ladies in handsome gowns- and there was happiness. As juniors, we elected our candidate as Queen of May. But not as juniors did we come on our fourth journey to Columbia College. Proud and thoughtful Seniors we were, and, with the same fortitude with which we began our work as Freshmen, we finished it. , ' VVe were beautifully and royally entertained on the seventh of April by the juniors, at the reception, and now Commencement has come and passed. lt was a glorious time, and a sad time. Twenty-eight of us received our diplomas from dear Dr. Daniel, our president. I am fairly overcome with this feeling of mingled joy and sadness-joy because the hardships and trials of college are over, and I am ready to launch my little boat out upon the Sea of Life, because my Alma Mater's training has better prepared me to sail that boat successfully. Sadness? Yes, 'tis a feeling of sadness too. Vlfe love our classmates, our teachers, our associations, and, looking back, we find that the suppressed trials and hardships were not so great after all. As the Class of 1914, we shall be loyal to C. C. As the daughters of Columbia College, we will be true. We came, and we saw, and we feel that we conquered. Your loving Niece -MARJORIE LOUISE HAMER, Class Historian 1 ,fly Stieff? Nw!! if THIRTY ii i fSP1r.' N. - ig ' 1 l 'MJ -x, I 'nf at ,V N 1-.ff Nik, .svsibi .wma 'ug'

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Class of 1,914 June 2, 1914 -T 'g a' EAR Uncle Richard :-Has not the time slipped bv so rapidly and fqvji, 'f TV 5? 1 - . Stealthlw that YOU, Vltay Out there in Turkey, will hardly believe that another of your .nieces is really a Sweet Girl Graduatepv But Es. 1-:NJ I am a graduate, with twenty-seven other graduates, and we are college leaving Columbia College with loyal hearts, as tried and true as e'er left any Do you remember how, on that morning four years ago, I wiped my eyes so repeatedly while I insisted I was not going to cry, and how mother asked me so many times if I had forgotten anything, and how father nearly forgot to give me my ticket? I was one of forty-two that found her way to the Capital City, and on out to what a great many of 'us thought was an immense factory, with its tall smokestack and large brick buildings. It was Columbia College, and, although it was only partly finished, we were made comfortable, and thus began our first year at college. Uncle Dick, you have not ever been a girl at college for the first time, and therefore you don't know anything about the way girls can cry! Even the bravest of us trembled like unto an aspen leaf when a teacher called on us in class, and I was terrified if I lost my room-mate in the hall or on the campus, fearing I'd never find her again. VVe cried when the letters from home came, and we also cried when they did not. But fortitude characterized the Class of 1914, and we soon dared to ven- ture out in the halls or to the class-room alone. Then things began to move smoothly, and ran smoothly until Fair VVeek. You know about the Fair, Uncle Dick, and how the crowds, the sights, and the din in general lured us cityward. After Thanksgiving and the boxes, came examinations, and then Christ- mas. But after the holidays nothing of actual importance happened, so far as we were concerned, except the wonderful Freshman Feast. Examinations again, and, Commencement over, we went home, knowing each other and our teachers, to come back for our second year not as shrinking Freshmen but as wise and knowing Sophomores. VVe had reached the stage when we could cope with anything-and we did. The rats this year were our worst enemies. This was also a year of examinations and vacations, with only the Sophomore Banquet to break the monotony, but-when we came yet again to Columbia College for the third time, as jolly Juniors, we came to do things. VVe studied German, and we studied English, and we studied physics, in fact we studied evevfything-but, Uncle Dick, we did not love' physics with a very great devotion. TWENTY-NINE

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Went YS at ld as tion. ' and Were 'HS-N May, mbia itude ril by ssed. lomas 1'-IOV aunch xg has mates. ressed CFS ot fl that rn Parting vt-QM' ARK! a voice gently calls. VVhat does it seem to say? I l It bids us do what quickly saddens: cr ' H Come now, with me away! Oh, wait another year, VVe beg in accents weak. Its answer is, I would, but see I am a servant meek. I must do all Time bids, And he sent me for you, Now I will tarry, bid good bye, To please, this quickly do. Wfe slowly turn with woe, To do as we are bid- How can we now leave C. C.'s walls, And from her face be hid? The messenger still waits, And grows quite weary now, NVith sad and grief-bowed hearts and minds VVe solemnly here -vow- That in the years to come VVhere'er we chance to be, Our love for thee, C. C., will grow, And this is our one plea- That though others may come To take our places here, That you will take them to your heart, But leave our plaCCS there. THIRTY-ONE