Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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The superficiality of collegiate life forcuseson casual indifference, depth of emotion, and breadth of purpose. A smile is often a tinsel crescent to hide an aching emptiness. Yet we are all aware that where there is joy, there is also sorrow. The smiles of one are reflected in the tears of another. Yearning hearts beat out the hours of endless days of separation. Hopeful faces haunt the mail room. The bright sun fails to warm the chill within a lonely heart. Youth is not a buffer to despondency. But a young heart heals quickly. It rarely proves to be an Achilles heel. The most painful wounds are not the deepest ones. The elasticity of youth is often mistaken for callousness. But we who look back are aware that hurts and disappointments of every nature have been the cement to stabilize our philosophies and to shape our maturity.

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Spring is the symbol of new life, of new beginnings. It is the product of Providential love. As it comes to us from a great and bountiful love, so it teaches us the joy of loving. Spring is an innate part of romance. It brings to us silver moons, twikling stars, serenades of winds and birds, glittering waterfalls, brilliant flowers, pastel tints of dawn and dusk. Against the backdrop of balmy days and azure skies, we learn to love, and in loving we find happiness. Venus smiles upon us, for we have found the secret of the ages. is

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With mixed emotions we face Graduation. Junior-Senior and May Day, term papers, dorm gossip, house parties, empty mail boxes—all these are left behind. Today becomes the Past. We look back on the half-forsotten incidents of fun and laughter, the many hours of leisure conversation, treasured friendships, personal moments of self-evaluation, belated comprehension of another’s needs. We see these experiences as gadflies, always forcing us to look beyond ourselves, uniting us in spirit, molding us into “loyal sons and true.