Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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Dedication TO OUR MOTHERS So the fair lady whose kindly counte¬ nance was the first to greet us when we left paradise; whose voice was very low and very tender as it helped us to forget our little sorrows and hushed us to sleep; whose smile approved our childish suc¬ cesses and made life’s little reverses less hard to bear; whose heart throbbed and still throbs in unison with our own, and whose eyes gazing out from earth or para¬ dise still follows us with maternal solici¬ tude. this booh is affectionately dedicated. Six

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Foreword c5ls a painting, or a novel, or a poem is at best only a faint shadow of Nature, so this Annual is totally unable to show Columbia College life in all its manifold phases. It does not tell the whole story; it does not attempt to do so; but it does, we hope, give a glimpse of every notable activity at Columbia. When the passing years lend their en¬ chantment to the view of our Alma Mater, and the cares of life oppress and shadows fall around us, may the Purgold of 1926 bring bach “the tender grace of a day that is dead” and make us feel on our troubled brows a breath from the morning of life.

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Mother—Builder of Builders Onc-lialf ri tliousaiul towering feet of stone! Majestic, l)eaut!ful, ambitious clay! 1 liddint vour builder at your leet to stay, While you survey the universe — alone! Six feet of manhood, lauded, known! Majestic, beautiful, ami)itious clay! Scalini ' the summit that you build to-day, To aze to-morrow o ' er the world — alone! r ut you, who build the builders of the world. Stand, silent, in the shadow of the I’reat, ' Poo oft unseen, unheralded, unknown! Mow few the banners, to men ' s i aze unfurled, Wh.ose i; ilded le ' ends manfully relate ' Phe i»lor} that the builder calls his own