Elms College - Elmata Yearbook (Chicopee, MA)

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acult YOUR PARTICULAR GIFT to the class of 1949 has been knowledge. You have diligently presented by lecture and demonstration the facts which we, your students, shall convert into wisdom. Now, as we step lightly forth to a new and different life, it is upon this wisdom that we shall depend. No other Faculty could have been more cheerfully generous or more genuinely fair. No other Faculty could have enlightened us more brightly. Therefore, as we murf mur our joyous farewells, we acknowledge your wisdom and your patience, your sincerity and your thoughtfulness. And our joy is more complete for we are confident that even after graduation you will always be ready with the habitual gentle word for us, with the nod of encouragement and praise, with tolerance and understanding.

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Qerfzkafzbfe The class of 1949 proudly and sincerely dedicate this yearbook to you, Your Excellency, because had it not been for your beneficence in establishing our school, a catholic college education might have been denied to many of us. The force of your determinaf tion has not only presented this gift to us but has provided us, in the course of four years, with the inf describable joys attained when friends can live, work and play together. The beauty of building, of learnf ing and of living which surrounds us here has def lighted and enriched us but we know that, lacking your guiding hand, all of this would not have been ours. As Founder and President of our college you have placed everything within our easy reach. And so now, as we pass from the goldenfhued college days, we turn back once more to express our genuine gratif tude to you for making our college life a reality.

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Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reproueg Thou who art victory and law When empty terrors overaweg From 'uain temptations dost set freeg And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity f9J