Illinois State Normal University - Index Yearbook (Normal, IL)

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ilbc Ilnbeg so Igc EDIIIUBIS jarrlnnll. 6.5.99 X W 2- ' UMRADE5, leave me here a little, if ' while as yet the day doth last. gg' Leave me here, and I will sadly cogi- gp tate upon the past. 2 -fly 'Tis the place, and all around it, falls u f- K the rain with gentle thud, . ' ' , And the student, absent minded, for- mally plods through the slip'ry mud. Many a night from yonder gloomy casement. ere I went to rest, Did I look on muddy pavements. and I vowed they were a pest. Many a night I saw the moon rise, bright and sil- very in the east, Many a night I have seen stars, too, when I fell on sidewalks greased. Here I worried over physics, and in spelling daily toiled, And with algebra I wrestled, till with rage I fairly boiled: In psychology I blundered, making statements strange and wild, Into chemistry's dark mysteries, I was led Us by ll child, Thus o'er problems deep I pondered, and in civics I was wise: In zooiogy l gloated over bugs and bees and llies, And o'er historyspage I feasted. and in litera- ture I dipped, Many a time. and oft with glailness, of its honey dews I sipped. In the spring. a loftier wisdom. beams from out the Seniors eyes. And he goes to see the tailor. and his hopes begin to rise. In the spring his mail increases. and his stately stature. too: And he fishes for positions: but, alas! his bites are a few. Many a morning, bright and early, did we meet the school law man, And he llunked us, for he loved to, since to teach here he began. But our vengeance was not wanting. for he. too. felt very liat. XVhen we had him at our mercy and he fanned out at the bat. IVE have won a reputation. while we've toiled in lea rning's hall: First of all in art of scrapping, champions. ton, at basket bali.

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30 'CID Knowledge comes, a little wisdom, though it comes with labor sore, Even with us the I doth wither, and the world is more and more. Now tous the future beckons: onward, upward we must range, Toward the higher life we're striving. and our purpose must not change. XVe must leave thee, ulnm murer, 'tis a saddening thought, I know, But thy spirit still will guide us. wheresoever we may go. Though the days that we have spent here were not days of idleness, Yet as years go by we'll fondly call them days of happiness. Yes. we love thee, ulnm, mater, and will learn to love thee more: More and more the years will brighten, happy scenes of days of yore. All the shame of dismal rlunking shall be buried in the past, And the days when we were brilliant are the days we know will last: Happy days of wit and wisdom, when OL11' minds were bright and clear, elln beg Rosenkranz, ev'n, had no terror. we could face it without fear. Now, farewell, though loath to leave thee, we must other paths pursue, But we'll hold thee in our memory when at work in pastures new. In our dreams we'll see thee often, with thy shade trees spreading wide, And beneath them chatting gaily, man and maiden, side by side. And we'll hear the Glee Club warbling in the distance, music grand. And we'll feel our pulses throbbing, as we listen to the band: Once again we'll cheer for victories, basket ball and tennis, too, Trips to Cedar Falls and Oshkosh will flash clear- ly into view. Howsoever these things be, a long farewell to Normal now, As a graduate I leave thee, I have made my parting bowg Comes a message from a school board, precious missive, longed for so, In it is the word elected, ends the tale thus, and I go. G. M. P. fy-fs -