Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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ALBERT R. TAYLOR, PII. D., PRESIDENT -7-

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- BOARD OF EDITORS. ELWOOD HIEUELS, Business Manager. LILLIAN THOMAS, Litiary Editor. ARTHUR POWELL, Editor-in-Chief. DEWIT C. FISHER, Art Editor. DANIEL A. ELLSWORTH, Associate-Edi'cr- -5-

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' ReI11il'liSC6l1C6S. BY A. R. TAYLOR. EMINISCENCES! what a beautiful word! how meaning! What a strange mixture of hope, pleasing its sound, and yet how variegated its of disappointment, of realization, of joy, of grief, of patient waiting, of anxiety, of loyalty and disloyalty of associates, of surprises, of unrequited effort, of toil, of hours of weakness, of moments of strength, of de- feat and triumph, of temptation and victory, of uncer- tainty and assurance, of despair and encouragement, of dread and delight, of loneliness and sympathetic fel- lowship, of turbulence and peace, is found in this vita- scopic picture so magically repainted by that melodi-- ous old Latin word, rewwmiscerwesl Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one,.and lo! what myriads rise! Each stamps its image as the other flies. fr For nineteen years I have been going in and out at the old south door, but they have been such busy years and have disappeared so quickly that I was startled at the suggestion of the editor that I indulge in a few reminiscences for Thenadafys. They have all seemed so fresh and so real that I had thought of the-in only as Nowadays. It has really semed one long day. And yet, how utterly changed is everything since that day in April, '82, when I followed the Regents- up the steps and into the assembly-room to. be introduced to the students as their new President. Poor things! In their ignorance they gave me a generous welcome, little suspecting 'the dire experiences in store for them with the opening of the new administration. They all sat behind -regulation desks, and with heads erect and arms folded, listened attentively to the few words of greeting in which I told them of the thrill of pleasure it gave me to look into their beautiful and interesting faces. Before leaving the city, I heard that the boys and girls, as well as the Regents, were much gratified at the brevity and appropriateness of the address. That was my first crumb of comfort. To acquaint myself with the Kansas educational system, I accepted the conductorship of the Lyon County Institute, so kindly oiered me by Superintend- ent Wharton. The afternoons were usually spent at the Normal Building, dreaming and planning. The summer had been cool and pleasant, but a few days before school opened, a dry, scorching, hot wind crept up from the south, and in a week the life was burnt out of every sprig of grass and every green thing in sight. Students were coming in for whom I was tramp- ing the streets' to find boarding-places, and I had ample opportunity to discover how, helpless I was before the pitiless simoon of that awful week. The new year opened with a slight increase in the enrollment, which comforted me greatly. The whole building was but half furnished, however, several rooms in the basement were without iioors, some were