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THE SENIOR ORACLE SCRIBE of 1907 finds himself alone upon the mountain top—a rapt seer, deep in meditation, gathering sweet memories of the past, reveling in the present, and planning the sumptuous castles of the future in far away Spain. In all this his soul delights. He is the one in a great theater, who sees or knows none around him and only half dreamily hears the drowsy music of the orchestra sounding in his ears as though it were the quiet gurgling and splashing of a stream upon its rocky bed in the solitude of the forest on a summer s day. He is waiting for the curtain to rise upon the great drama shortly to be presented—the drama of the Life that is to be! And out of this indistinct harmony, he hears the words of the song:— “Kenyon, we linger ’Neath thy gray old walls and see Life’s ardent finger Beckoning us from thee. Then through tear drops starting Comes a thought which gives alloy To this sign of parting. Turning it to joy.' CJ It is a solemn, serious thought—a thought of all that Kenyon has meant to the class of 1907—the influences of our quiet, free, in- dependent life in this environment or the love ot the great world out- doors so near to Kenyon s heart and so intrinsically a part of our college life. No! We shall not begin to realize this until the curtain p»g« twenty-nine
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is raised and we Have taken up our cue, and plunged into the action of the play in real earnest. But Here, indeed. Have we proved our prow- ess in tHe skirmisH line. We Have met tHe enemy and they are ours. We come forward now to be dubbed Sir Knigbt and to go forth as sons of Kenyon, tried and true. CjJ There are some in these days who talk loudly of a certain Univer- sity of Hard Knocks and boast the superiority of its curriculum over such as that outlined in the catalog of Kenyon College. To those noble men who have climbed the mountain heights, have been tried by the fire, and are now the distinguished representatives of this well- known university, there is naught but the highest praise and apprecia- tion. They have fought a good fight, a hard fight, lured to the rocks by the Lorelei and all but escaping the bitterness of shipwreck and de- struction. Indeed it is a stern discipline; it strengthens the sinews and summons up the blood, but after all, it hardens the heart—it breaks the heart! No doubt we shall be spared many of these bitter hours, but we too shall pass through our Slough of Despond and climb the mount of Difficulty and if we have learned here our lesson well, pass through them triumphant, and bring our honors to the feet of our Alma Mater. A burst of glorious music and the scribe finds himself recounting successes here and there, not with the old leaven of selfish pride, but with the new leaven of humility and satisfaction in striving and doing. We have had our failures, too. But, greatest of all, we have learned to know and love each other as only Kenyon men do, and we know, too. that when we hear the call, Surge, Baccalaurei! ” it shall mean more to us than the completion of certain study books. We have learned, as the Autocrat learned, to believe in life rather than in books, and that humanity is found after all, in deaths and births, in loves and hates, triumphs and defeats, and sorrows and joys. With P S thirty
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