Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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tin- luckless wight who loitered behind, or failed to cover the proper amount of the road! Besides all this there was a band in the mountain who having preceded vours had reached the Sophomoric Heights, and had grown dizzy from their elevation. It was their insane delight to hurl down upon you various heavy burdens which they had found the year before, and had borne up the mountain until they reached the aforesaid elevation. Strange to say. these burdens are picked up every year by some new band, borne a little way up the mountain, and then hurled hack upon those below. who in turn pick them tip. hear them a short distance, and again hurl tlu-m down on some new band. One of these burdens was a peculiarly irritating epithet which designated the person at whom it was hurled as a much hated rodent that used to infest our fathers' corn-cribs in great numbers. Two other hands, whose members possessed adorable faces and musical voices, were climbing the mountain by neighboring trails, each under the leadership of a guide like yours. Sometimes for a short hut happy period, your trail lay contiguous to that of one or the other of these hands, yet even here was trouble; and if you will hut pause to do so. you may he. even now. able to recall the name of some promising climber, who, gazing on. and dreaming of those other hands, neglected his guidebook, failed to trace his course, and as a consequence went over some fatal precipice. Thus you climbed. There were one, two. three pauses on vaeational ledges to rest then you began the last climb and the summit came into view at last! But lo! far In-fore you lie other and even loftier heights of wisdom, for the quest of knowledge is one that has no end. Now the road diverges into many paths, one of which you must tread, your school the world, your books the lives of those about you. Bidding the kind guides and your associates farewell, you turn vour face to the future. Other Septembers shall adorn the earth with gold and silver flowers and turn loose dozens of fleecy clouds within the intense depths of its blue,— yes. its blue, its infinite depths of azure, reminding one of that sapphirinc glory whose beauty at Sinai bespoke to Moses and Aaron the presence of the Internal: other bands shall climb upward from the Vorschulc roads, but for you the climb is over. Yet there lingers in your heart just a gentle touch of regret. A. L. Pickkxs.

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 Bonbomie The Mountain Climb | KPTKM BKR ! Wlio li;ti 1 describe those glorious hours of calm which I arc interspersed amid the autumnal winds? Those days that hold that great sweet stillness when the fleecy clouds hang motionless and gentle within the infinite dome of heaven as though they and ail tin-world beneath them were lost in an overpowering, pensive revervi And old Nature having lived a life of beauty, contemplates the death of winter with holy ealm. and bringing forth her gold and silver, bestows them with lavish eharit in the form of gleaming asters and flashing golden rod. Somehow all the world seems to he dreaming of the newer life that shall come with the resurrection of spring; and even if it rains. Nature's very tear-drops seem brightly gleaming, with the fulness of hope. It was during sueh a month as this that you found that the little orschulr path, which you had been following as it wound here and there amid the Piedmont regions of the Mountains of Knowledge, had converged with others of its kind at the foot of a great mountain. Here you found the genial mountain guide, Kdwin. waiting with a corps of efficient helpers to conduct you and your party up the mountainside. How distant and dim seemed the summit! You were told it would take four years for the climb! Nevertheless, you entered the little lattice-fronted store at the foot of the mountain, equipped yourself with alpine stall’ and guide-hooks, and manfully set out upon the journey. The members of the band were enthusiastic, and elected from their own number a large auburn-haired Titan as leader. lint, alas! Trouble lay ahead. The way soon divided into sundry trails of various grades of difficulty. In one of these trails you stumped your toes so often on two kinds of stones. Itabcn and Srin. that mayhap you sadly soliloquized, that “to have’’ and “to be” were the most important things, not only in life, but also in German grammar. Hut most difficult of all was the mathematical trail; and despite the kindness of the guide who led there, many a mental skeleton was left to bleach amid its triangular pebbles, and its hyperbolic, parabolic, and diabolic windings. In addition to the above every member was required t cover enough road to enable him to be present at searching examinations which the guides gave at stated times and places during the climb. Some accomplished this bv steady climbing; some by spurts, and some by the use of imported jacks and ponies. But woe betide

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Senior Class OFFICERS C. S. Sullivan .... O. C. SCARBOROUGH . A. A. Foremax J. A. Easley .... W. R. I.oadholt . ( . (). Milford .... Miss Annie Mai di: Wii.bi'h President Vice-President . Secretary . . Historian . . . . Poet . . Prophet . . Sponsor MEMBERS Aiken, J. B. Anderson, J. T. Carter, W. W. Chappell, L. N. Childress, J. P. Ckaix. E. B. Easley. J. A. Loadiioi.t. W. R. Mileohd, C. O. Miller. J. B. Mitchell. F. W. Owincs. J. E. Sapoch, M. F. SCARBORorc.il, (). C. Foreman, A. A. Forman, A. G. Gardner. E. E. Hammond. II. Holley, H. E. Irby. G. W. Jackson, J. E. Simpson, J. II Skinner. A. C. Skinner, R. G. Steedi.ey, II. F. Scluvax, C. S. Thui.uck, J. M. Walker, J. I,. Zeigler. W. V.