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

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I Qgffck also l SENIOR CLASS POEM. WILLIAM F. CAVINS. For two or more years we have labored together, Ofttimes 'neath a cloud although ne'er without hope. To bring the ideal self into the real And cast the old shell which so limits our scope. Our metamorphosis has been much encouraged. Desire to turn back's been diminished by half Through sympathy, cheer, and kind aid from each other. By roses and sunshine bestrewn in our path. Our teachers have faithfully. tenderly labored To model our lives into worthier casts. We ask their forgiveness for all our shortcomings And pray that their efforts may be crowned at last. That when far removed from this loved situation. And scattered abroad by stern duty's commands. Their higher ideals with which ours have blended. We trust, may still lead us toward worthier ends. l think we can say when we're old and gray headed ln traveling back through the lanes of the past, There's one shady nook where we can't help but linger To drink from the brook and to rest on the grass. When laden with burdens of care I imagine That oft will we then to this paradise come. To pluck the forget-me-nots fresh as the morning. The mem'ries of Normal forever in bloom. If Y: yv

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I 2 the llnbeg with a new platform, a sloping floor, and opera chairs: the literary societies have spent about six hundred dollars each in flooring and frescoing their spacious halls, in stage decorations and new furnishings. The campus is more beautiful than ever. Many of the disiiguring paths are closed. Flower beds and areas of green have displaced the stretches of cinder next the buildings. Ivies are reaching to drape the bare walls of gymnasium and practice school. The systematic planting of trees and shrubbery has begun to restore these features wherever the original plantings have disappeared. We might promise more good things that are hoped for in the near future. The many un- realized promises of last year's INDEX bid us beware. Yes, the old school will continue to flourish. Its central position in the garden of Illinois, its accessibility, the intellectual community that has grown up all around it to afford comfortable homes for its students and to support and sustain its life, its beautiful surroundings, its stately buildings, its devoted faculty, its host of distinguished alumni, and above all the hundreds of teachers that go forth every year carrying live coals from the altars and daily demonstrating the nobility of the service to which they are called these are the sure guaranties of its perpetuity and renown. 1- -Er-im-Bio-45 'QPLB ' ni? ui '61 NO' Xf ' -3 I Qj! 'ir,tui:'! 4- g Ti-W e,fgA4l-'tt O 9-. '1v r1f 11' ,..' -av 7 -. , -f , 'fr m ' - nfl if X . yy, .in sy 9 -l :E ' ' N311 Ps- X ' if ' ,

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