Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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T) EAR to the hearts of the older of Columbia’s Alumni is St. Joseph Mall, the nucleus from which the surroundings grew to meet the demands of an active and rowing institution. This present abode of the academy students was once St. Joseph College in its entirety, in all its youthful hopefulness and vigor. Co¬ lumbia has grown, expanded, changed, but her sons do‘not forget; and with tradition im¬ bedded in every stone St. Jo¬ seph Hall will always retain a verv real and i)ermaneni charm. Xinoloon

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JULIEN DUBUQUE’S GRAVE INTKEPID Julicn! What a place to sleep! sky, al)ove; the hanging rock, between; r.clow, the water runninj still and deep; lEmca.th the drooping willows, cool and green. The rock that rears aloft into the blue Is softened by the hanging green that gianvs On full-leafed tree, in llow’ring cleft; while through Still peeps the cliff, grown old in mild re- pose. Grown grey with whit¬ ening winds, with Cleansing r a i n s and snows. lOiglitecn

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ST. JOSEPH HALL GYMNASIUM IIK old gymnasium like its neighbor, St. Joscpli Hall, conjures up from the fruitful stores (;f mem¬ ory countless remembrances of by-gone (lavs. Glorious victories and no less glorious (lefe«ats thrilled many a pensive crowd of students and spectators be¬ hind these walls. The old gym¬ nasium is dwarfed into insig¬ nificance when compared with the new modern structure, but not so the battles fought on its flo(jrs nor the manly characters there developed, ' fraditon is (juitc as potent in athletics as in anything else, and the old gymnasium will ever be a cal! from the past to make Colum¬ bia greater and better. Twenty