Davenport College - Galax Yearbook (Lenoir, NC)

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Funeral Oration to Senior Books Our Friends, our College-Mates, to us, in some respects this is a sad, sad hour, but in another, we are glad on this the twenty-second day of May, nineteen hundred and eleven, to lay our text books aside forever. We have been close companions for the entire year; we have had trials, troubles, and tribulations together. These many months we have walked hand in hand with each other, but now we are part- ing, still we shall gladly and lovingly remember the times we have pored over their pages. Now friends, hear us in our last earnest words in behalf of these our long-cherished volumes, which we gently and reverently lower into their graves. There are many among us who like books and we wish to say to you that we, as we bury our treasures do not desire to impress you with the idea that we dislike them. Now, since their contents are finished, we prefer to go out into the world with their in- fluence, which is not buried with them. We are saying good-bye . May those who come after us love and enjoy their Senior books as much as we have ours. We are sure, however, that they vdll be glad to bid them farewell at the end of their year ' s work. They are gone. Good-bye forever. The Senior Class.

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Senior Class Poem Four long years on Davenport soil The Senior Class has continued to toil. A few more weeks and this will pass, And into the world no more a class. Into the world to win our way; No more Seniors bright and gay, But girls who wear a business air. And on whose brows are marks of care. We love old Davenport with all our heart, And with her we grieve to part; But if we chose to longer stay We fear our welcome would wear away. Yet when to the world we are bold, Our Alma Mater still will hold In each of our hearts a tender spot. Which the storms of time cannot blot. —Elizabeth Rogers.