Lebanon Valley College - Quittapahilla Yearbook (Annville, PA)

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Senior C It ass Officers President— D. L). Brandt Vice President— Nell C. Reed Secretary — W. E. Reidel Treasurer — A. C. Crone Poetess — Mary N. Light Historian — IT ' . R. Appenzellar FLO IYER— Bird-foot Violet COLORS— Red and Black MOTTO — Qui studet contingere metam, multa tulit fecitque. YELL — Rac-a-de cax, co-ax, co-ax, Rac-a-de-cax, co-ax, co-ax, Lebanon Valley 1904 I Sis-hoom-hah ! — 24—

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Jdsti oru As we stand upon the threshold of active life and are about to leave our studies of theories and ideals to enter into a field of more piactical affairs, we are frequently impelled to pause and in retrospect, to glance over our college days and ponder on the many changes, both external and internal, which we have experienced during our years of work and play at Lebanon Valley. Both evolution and revolution have occurred in the actions, thoughts, and character of us all. Looking backward, the time seems long since we entered here with minds eager and craving for learning, for we had taken all knowledge to be our province, fullj ' expecting that we should survey and mark out that entire province to our own complete satisfaction and to the surprise and delight of a world, astonished at and bewildered by our remarkable achievements. True, the change has been accomplished, though not that which imagination had pictured for us. But there has been an alteration in ourselves, and thus our view-point has been changed. The brightness of the flaring enthusiasm of past years has been worn off and in its place has arisen a more desirable and steadfast quality, a definite purpose. We have come to realize our insignificance and importance, our limitations and our qualifications and possibilities. Our chiefest ambition is no longer to have our memories perpetuated by a tablet in a hall of fame, but to have our lives remember for our actions and influence among our fellow-men, for to live in the lives we leave behind us is not to die. We feel that truly our lot has been cast in pleasant places, for our life here has been filled with many pleasant experiences and we realize that these are probably the happiest days that we shall eve r know. The benefits we have derived we shall soon appreciate at their full worth and we trust that we have not been parasites, but have in turn helped to some extent in the development of the school. —26—