Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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Xot nianv davs have passed since the first warm breeze blew from the south. It came on a quiet afternoon when snowdrifts still lingered under the bare trees. To the lethargic world it was the awakening kiss of spring which melted dullness with the snows. To us, however, it brought with its tidings of renewed joy a sad warning. Since then a voiceless regret has struggled within us for expression, and the receding days have carried our sighs. Four years ! No happy dream was ever more fleeting — Merciless Time knows only its own reckoning. Just a while longer and we must leave her, the mother who ■has been our inspiration during these four years of unforgetable memories. We have attained our manhood now, and must follow our older brothers in that long pilgrimage whose goal is the achievement of the high ideals set before us by our Alma Mater. We would retard the cruel moment of separation, not for fear of the dangers of the journey, but because we do not feel strong enough to break the bonds which attach us to her. . vague dread that this farewell might be the last holds us back. Many things we have neglected, and now we vainly attempt to absorb them that when, in the future, sorrows shall darken our horizon, we may revive the scenes of our youth and recover lost courage. Venerable Founders, message bearer of the past, relic of that small group of plainly clad men who breathed their spirit into our college, and Barclay, emblematic of present-day Haverford, facing the east and the west as if to receive the suns first ravs and reflect the last in accordance with the conservative progress which is the idea! of our college. — we cannot take leave without another lingering look at these buildings so typical of Haverford. Dut already the call sounds, the new life beckons. We must retrace our footsteps under the drooping streamers of the willow by Conklin Gate, and start on the journey with deep regret, but with strengthened hearts and hopes for the future.