Hardin Simmons University - Bronco Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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THE NEW SCIENCE BUILDING

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Eighteen ,2-

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A Resume and a Propheey' IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII OUR YEARS have passed, the greatest four years of our lives thus far, and the class of Nineteen comes to its gradua- tion. Our feelings present a paradox. We are glad to go and seek a place of service and yet there steals from each heart a sigh when we think of leaving the beloved scenes and associations of our Alma Mater. We find here a something, an indefinable, in- vincible something that shall shape and flavor our lives a.nd,: we hope, give distinction and character to our class. As Seniors weuhave found that the greatest thing about Simmons College is not her cam- pus, not her faculty, not her ' student body, but her spirit. The traditions, legends, and .memories clustering about the Old College campus seem to have linked themselves with the friendliness and optimism of the West to form an individuality, a college spirit that carries with it the hall-mark of its own excellence. On the horizon of a not too distant future we see the dawn of a new day for our Alma Mater. Simmons is to be a university. As she grows so shall her spirit. The purple and the gold shall take on added meaning. The purple dawning of each new sun shall be but the prophesy of a bigger and grander Simmons ere the gold of evening casts its spell over light-hearted students strolling on the campus beautiful. e T Nineteen