DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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typewriters, and copy desks, and fine lights and shades at the Win- dows and everything- and then you go across the way into the big trophy room With the spade that Dr. Grose and Charley Barnaby and Prep McLeod made famous. And over on the other side a whole row of fine new footballs and such, and on three 01' four of them you see painted in big White letters, thePauW tsomethingh Wabash tnoth- $77 ing -then a fellow feels like poking out his chest and running his hngers in the arm-holes of his vest and saying in a loud, ttguesse Who-I-be,, voice e ttGee, I feel sorry for little schools like Butler and Wabash. It must be tough to be Without a good gymnasium, and trophies, and a Daily, and a cork track, and shiny desks, and an Athletic Board and good alumni and everything that we are blessed with? So here7s to you, Alumni and Alumnits friends. Perhaps you think we are carefree and irresponsible ,m you may even have the idea that we dont appreciate what you have done for us eand that we may even make light of your efforts 011 our behalf. But mark it down with red ink and fine book marks so you Will remember ite were for you to the last notch, and sometime When we hit the rough world for a living tand perhaps some few of us may prove successful in fooling humanity mark it down, We say, that then we may have an opportunity of proving to you just how much we do appreciate. So herets to you again, and may the spirit of enthusiasm and loyalty, Which brought to us the new gymnasium, may it live forever, We say, in the lives and hearts of DePauw and her sons and daughters for generations and generations. DR. CYRUS U. WADE 10