Franklin and Marshall College - Oriflamme Yearbook (Lancaster, PA)

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In all the various interests of the College, but particularly in those which deal with its higher aims and purposes, the class has always been distinctly identified, and as a class it has always mutually entertained the warmest feeling of fraternal interest. But the old unrest which revealed itself in the Freshman year still stirs at times, and as the day approaches when for the second time in its history it shall be called to say ff Good-bye to everything it has learned to love, that feeling stirs more deeply. NVhat, though the future looks bright: What, though it promises increased freedom, what, though it stands inviting new companionships, the class knows full well. that even as the delightful relations of the College can never take the place of the more tender and enduring ties that hound them to their ehildhoodis home, so the attractions of the world, its gaiety, freedom, applause and appreciation can never approximate the strength of those bonds which unite them with their Alma Mater. The smile which the future calls forth is blinded with the tear that the past awakens. The class has come to realize in a. wider sense than ever before the truth of the poetls line, Parting is such sweet sorrow. The Historianls work is done, with a strange tremor that will not be controlled, he writes that linal word, at o11ce the saddest, fondest, dearest, richest, soul-inspiring word the world can ever know, a word that like an archway, spans the yet unseen, and binds the past and future lirm and sure-that friendly, hopeful word-.-I lQf'lL'i131IUI'SIfll,?I. ll xs'ro1u,xN. -1- 29 -1'

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