Georgetown University - Ye Domesday Booke Yearbook (Georgetown, DC)

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L.NDER IHE TREE- 169

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Spirit of the Reason Ml IKti long-imprisoned men releasei.1 I from the gloom and chill of winter ' s l -M dungeons, Georgetown students awake to the mood of spring. Overnight the dark cast of the March sky begins to reflect the light brilliance of the budding lilacs. The threat of choking snow is replaced by nourish- ing rain ; galoshes are replaced by rubbers, tubercular hacks b - buoyant shouts, the mo- rose trea l of class-bound students by an en- li encLl race for the baseball diamond and the track. .Alongside the eternal stone of Healy ma - be heard the varying bounce of tennis balls, and time-pressed day-hops spare a heart-balming moment to rest in the spring restored benches beneath the ancient trees on the lawn. Even the sombre cloaks of the Jesuits cannot restrain them from stealing a grateful glance at nature ' s rebirth as they pace the walks and read their daily office ; and as the days advance into ever-lengthening warmth, even the cloaks join the topcoats and snowfall of an unlamented winter ' s memory. Tennyson ' s young man ' s fancy dresses him in colorful and light regalia in these . ' pril and Ma - days, and bends his attention not only to the fields of sport but also to the fields where dandelions and poppies grow. Along the student footpaths of the Chesapeake and Potomac Canal students stride in dreamy exhilaration with girls who suddenly appear in spring at the same time as the budding on the maples and elms. %tm Dyer, Tcwcs, Reynolds, Father Geib, SJ., Wilson, Palms and Kearney