Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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The scene has changed. Again I gaz( Wonder at a sight amazing. Standing at a surgeon ' s table From which seems to come a groan, Is a maiden tirm, undaunted, Giving chloroform when wanted, Proving woman ' s progress vaunted, This is Dr. Featherston. Journeying far from home to heathen Lands across the ocean, see then, Sowing seeds of Gospel teaching. Our sweet classmate, Julia Vaughan, Casting otl ' the iron fetter Paganism allotted, better Portion giving women ; let her Bring the high noon after dawn ! On the .stage in dress resplendent, A crowned ijueen, a star, trans Lightly trips the gifted actress. Lucy Thornton ' s favorite part Is the gentle maiden Juliet. I ' m afraid that us she ' 11 fool yet. Find a Komeo, really, truly — yet She ' s wedded to her art. ' Lelia Agnes Scott, the gi ' eatest Of our class, methinks thy fate is Well to fill the chair of science In some college far away. And at night with eye unfailing. Watch the bright ethereal sailing Of the moon, till moonbeams paling, Warn of the approach of day. Science wallis here a dim spectre. As with soft melodious chiming Art has seized her disused sceptre, Silver bells delight us, rhyming. Placed it in the hand of Khythmical and mystic, charm us, Lily Carter, and at home, Proves that laurels green may rest on Read me oft, with admiration, One fair head with grace and fitness, A.nd behold with acclamation. To her genius bearing witness. Pictures that with fascination Genius shown in songs of sweetness Hold that artist city, Eome. By our poet, Nelly Preston. Sallie Jackson Michie, baby Uf our class ! Ere long an A. B., Will be seen as proud appendage Of the prouder name you bear. For in Nashville ' s halls of learning Now you stay, with ardor burning And you think of not returning Till the wished-for prize you wear. 26

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Once upon a mid night dreary, As I pondered, weak and wearj ' , Over Martin big, and Baldwin, Over Brookes and White and Ray As I nodded lower, slower, To my then abundant store There was added one book more — And I sighed in deep dismaj ' . On the cover, purple, golden. On the back in letters olden, Ever - spiral fraught with menace, Was the one word, Destinj ' . I, with invocation stilling All the fears my bosom filling. Oped the book with hand unwillinj] It was our class prophecy ! Lucy Wrieht ! As such none knows her. A white-robed bride the first page shows. Gone are thoughts of teaching, missions, Music and philology. What has wrought this change surprising? And why hides she this disguise in ? This is what the secret lies in, — Studying James ' Psvchologv.

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An LL. D. I ' m now beholding, Lengthy arguments unfolding, And we shout with those Venetians, ■ ' A Diiniel come to judgment ! Heed ! Obdurate she stands. Entreating Will not move her till completing, Her opponents she ' s defeating, — This fine Unvver. Daisy Read. Ellen Eichardson, the darling Of the Practice School ! Tlie starling Prisoned in his cage no sweeter Trills his music wild and free. And the crowd, enraptured, breathless, Listens to thy music deathless, This is what the prophet saith. Less I could not tell to thee. And now my own, so long expected, I .shall show the clear reflected Brightness of the mathematics Eadiance emanating here. But the cruel fates denied me More to learn of those beside me And I closed the book and hied me To niv couch. — for dawn was near.