Connecticut College - Koine Yearbook (New London, CT)

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Subduer of the forest! FOREWORD 'E HILL OF THE FREE WINDS - the fulness of the spring moon that Uncas' spirit t;; the Happy Hunting-Ground. And on that night n of the tribe gathered on the island known as and danced to the song of the Great Spirit as it the gleaming waters. And when they could see r it n r'ngltar, they moved in solemn procession over the ;fffsland, following the water's edge to the mainland, the trail leading up the Hill of the Free Winds, that over the shining water. There, on the crest of the that spot they built a fire in which to burn his hair ifice, and as they danced in a slow-moving circle around the soothsayer chanted farewell to their Departed Spirit. 'T'F.alr;zh ell, farewell, thou Mighty Spirit, These hills where thou hast roamed Shall ever mourn thy going. Thy bravery and thy strength Sl'id'll live forever in thy tribe. And.'bqie. as we bury thy headdress and weapon, We plant the seeds of thy fearless spirit. And on this Hill shall grow the fruit, The fruit of thy might and thy courage. And when the blossom shall be full-blown, With promise of fruit in the future, Then shalt thou, O Spirit of Uncas, Leave for a while thy Hunting-Ground, Come striding back o'er the molten waters, And the hills thou hast loved shall feel thee once more. If then, O Spirit of Uncas, Thou see not the proud strength that thou worshipest Then is this soothsayer chan . That glides, and slides, ged to a vile serpent, and knows nothing of Truth. 10

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APPRECIATION IN THINE ENNOBLING DREAM WE FIND OUR WILL AND POWER TO SERVE MAN- KIND AND MAKE IT STRONG AND TRUE. THESE WORDS, FROM PRESIDENT MAR- SHALL'S OWN PLEDGE TO ALMA MATER, SEEM TO EXPRESS IN SOME MEASURE THE INSPIRATION WHICH FOUR YEARS OF HIS LEADERSHIP AND COMPANIONSHIP HAVE GIVEN US. HIS VISION IS WIDE AND GLORI- OUS; HIS CHALLENGE IS ALWAYS TO THE FINEST AND NOBLEST THAT IS IN US; AND HIS IDEALISM AND LOVE OF REAL BEAUTY ARE CONTAGIOUS.

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Many moons had passed before the spirit of Uncas came back to the Hill of the Free Winds. It was again the fulness of the spring moon, and music was being chanted from a stone- wall by a gathering of black-gowned maidens. - And the mighty Uncas looked in disgust at the white-faced maidens, and the stone wigwams, and the lights that cheapened the moonlight, and was about to pronounce the soothsayer's doom, when another spirit came dancing toward him-the spirit called the Good Fairy, the emblem of the chanting black-gowned ones. She checked his wrath, and told him the story of the maidens, and of their college that had grown on the Hill of the Free Winds; and the story that she laid before his mighty judgment is in part unfolded in these pages. :