Framingham State University - Dial Yearbook (Framingham, MA)

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JAMES CHALMERS, AB., P1-LD., D,D., L.L.D., PRINCIPAL

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To the Class of 1929 3. 'finest thingsiof life can seldom be meas- line or weighed by a pair of scales. can determine how much is added ff? by the fragrance of a. rose, the or the glory of the stars. In like painters have exhausted their portray the meaning of home. are -- ,wizer into 1125 make up are of e of for home is a It is the plane where one has Sense .it is ones

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I have selected as most appropriate to your clientelgi' Chaucer's description of the Oxford student. It is the happiest characterization of a college student that I have ever discovered. I wish every one of my studentsf would commit it to memory and repeat it each morning before breakfast. rs X--V DR. J.-XIMES CH.-XLIXIERS. A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also, That un-to logik hadde longe y-go. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertakeg But loked holwe, and ther-to soberly. Ful thredbar was his overest courtepyg For he had geten him yet no benefice, Ne was so worldly for to have office. For him was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bokes, clad in blak or reed Of Aristotle and his philosophye, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrye. But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofreg But al that he mighte of his frendes hente. On bokes and on lerninge he it spente, And bisily gan for the soules preye Of hem that yaf him wher-with to scoleye. Of studie took he most cure and most hede, Noght o word spak he more than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence. Sowninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly techef' Vfg F, -, , ' y VLA 17' KJ 6 1 yi Vvhfiyfil X' ' I ' X , . ..A- I f-5, , A - , 1, -1 4' ' . ',.f ,, i, 1, f ' ' Ili l ,..-Ltr! l - ILQ LL'-V s Q i. I V n N.0,s. L,,e1i, 'luv 'Lite IC: ici , 3 If C LA-LN VvL.Q,fLttJ LLMN, Vg, K L . ' 'ALT 'Q A a ' A ' it 5,11 V. 5g QfCCLQlLLU CII' . ',, LL LT ,iz aff L-in ' l . V 1 sr , 1 ' '-Z