Eastern Mennonite University - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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She claims to be E.M.C.’s beginning, sporting ivy and Virginia creeper as evidence of her age. Al- : though she has bequeathed many tasks to younger, stronger buildings, still she remains the center of administration and activity... . eerie mere: a a True, she’s currently the young- | est member of the family of buildings, but just look who has grown to be the largest . . . strict- ly the ladies’ domain, except for spacious social room, the prim whiteness of the infirmary, and : the basement floor... . : : ll :

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Sometimes she bashfully hides her face behind a silver mist, or reaches fingers purple with cold, to pull down an ermine shawl around her neck, but usually she just stands there, a part of E.M.C., and smiles benignly on her children... . Old Massanutten sees them arrive from idyllic Together they view the landscape of college life, farms, sleepy villages, energetic cities, but they one of the most vivid spots being, of course, the do not long remain strangers to each other.... familiar classroom.

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Fall, winter, or spring, it’s down- the-road-you-go for some college freshman boys. In the big white house with the many nooks and corners they reign supreme ex- cept for the gray squirrels which play tag just outside the win- dows.... Park Wood can’t keep its secret long, for every student soon finds his way up the gravel path. . . Oakwood’s always there, waiting for the book-weary to “bid dull care begone” and come, bringing their laughter and music... . Here artists dabble in reds, blues, greens, while soloists climb up and run down the scale... “Y” members call it the front office, and high-school home economics students here learn the maxim that dishes if dirtied must also be washed ....