Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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has the spirit of the times changed, reverence for my old walls would scarce save me from demolition, did I broach it to one of them. It comes hard for me to smile-my face is so hard and stiff, but I am fairly persuaded to, when I see the boys reluctantly tiling along the paths to Chapel at 8:10, and then recall the regular 6 o'clock service every morning in my own Chapel, where the classes met below, and the organ with the choir occupied the galleries. Thus a class was held before breakfast, and the work of the day early underway. The afternoons were nearly always vacant then, and at the close of day they met again for evening prayers. In the warm weather, they would gather on my old, foot-worn steps and sing over the songs they loved the best, and when the red sun had vanished from their sight and even I could barely see his rim above the wooded hills, they still sang on, though their tones were hushed from the stillness of the place. All was peaceful and countrylike ffor you must realize that in those other days, it was mostly open country around the campusj , and their tuneful voices blended so with Nature's, as she sank to rest, that it soothed me, too, to sleep. Alas! those voices have ceased forever, yet in the quiet of the evening hour, I still can hear them, and they seem to whisper, 'Old West, we love thee, though so far removed. Forget us not.' And I never shall. Young Denny, when as old as I, you, too, will have sweet memories to treasure up, and it will bring you comfort. I heard no more, though I waited long in expectancy., Very, very softly I sneaked up to my room in East, and if I can rightly recall, so overslept myself, as to miss the classes of the whole forenoon. But I had been well repaid. When you, my dear young student, awaken in the night and listen to the rattling of the panes and the shaking of the walls, close your eyes again and imagine, as I have done, that the old buildings are holding converse with each other and living over the years that their infancy knew. 22

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