Daniel Baker College - The Trail Yearbook (Brownwood, TX)

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LET’S SAY IT NOW. Often when the sky is dreary, Often when the heart is weary, We could say some cheering word that would perhaps make bright an eye; We could make the day seem brighter, We could make the heart grow lighter, Many heart-strings that were tighter, We could loosen if we’d try, We could do it if we’d try. We could share each others sorrow, We could brighten each tomorrow, We could help a weary brother lift the leaden load of care; We could leave harsh words unspoken, Give a smile instead as token, That the friendly ties unbroken, Cause each of them to share Burdens others seem to bear. There is always someone near us, Always someone who will hear us, If our motto is to scatter happiness where ’er we go; E ’en those who dwell in sunny bowers, Those who are the brightest flowers, Those who look from highest towers, Welcome cheering words we know, Follow paths where sunrays glow. Let us then stop quick and listen, Do not wait to see the glisten Of an eye that’s lost its sparkle by the falling Do not wait until you wander, Far away sometime off yonder, On this thought now let us ponder. Why not say some word that cheers? Let’s not wait till future years, Let’s say it now. —Fannie L. Smith, ’23.

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B. Emison Horn Barnett C. Bradshaw M. Emison THE BAND OP ’22. In the realm of higher learning there is a small but swiftly flowing stream called Daniel Baker College. In the year of 1917 there came two small row boats, one very badly battered up by a voyage through the Lake of High School Learning; the other confident and assured that after several years’ successful journey in the sea of matrimony, it could go safely up the stream of Daniel Baker. The first boat was rowed by the well-known pirate Charlotte Brad- shaw, who, thinking that the even Lake of High School Learning was some- what too placid and lacking in adventure for her bravery and fearlessness, resolved to overcome and sack the riverside castles occupied by powerful dukes who forbad anyone’s passing their castle. The second boat was manned by another pirate, Mrs. Chas. J. Horn. She, too, had felt the need of new adventure, and after hearing the other pirates speak of having gone up this stream and finding it very interesting and profitable, she determined to go up it herself. Perhaps the hardest castle of all to overcome is the first, the one called Castle of Freshman Year. Around this Castle is the wall of Preparatory Classes. Pirate Horn had obtained from the conquest of Ward Belmont the magic key that allowed her entrance to the castle, but Pirate Bradshaw had to scale the wall. While Bradshaw was scaling the wall, the pirate of the name of Horn got ahead of her in the conquest of the castle. However, Pirate Horn, because of so many outside interests, such as servant problems and social life, did not attempt to conquer all the castle in a single year, but left part of it till the next year as did also her companion pirate.