Mary Washington College - Battlefield Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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THE STUDENTS OF MARY WASHINGTON COLLEGE HOLD IT A HAPPY PLEASURE AND DEEM IT A HIGH PRIVILEGE TO DEDICATE THE BATTLEFIELD OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY ' THREE DR. HUGO ILTIS IN WHOM THEY RECOGNIZE A SCIENTIST OF WIDE RENOWN WHOSE SCHOLARSHIP IS ONE OF BRILLIANT ATTAINMENT WHOSE NOBLE QUALITIES AS A PROFESSOR ARE SUCH AS BECOME A GREAT TEACHER WHOSE PATRIOTISM IS LIKE UNTO A PURE WHITE FLAME THAT KNOWS NO WAVERING WHOSE FRIENDSHIP IS HELD DEAR AND PRIZED AS A VALUED POSSESSION

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PRESENTATION VERY great artist has a master- piece. Upon this he lavishes all care and love, criticizing, changing, correcting, and perfecting. When at last the work has met his approval, he stands back, content to look and smile his satisfaction. Our school has given us her time, her ideas, and her love. She is shaping oiur lives in the paths she wishes us to go. The spirit of the school, her beauty, her thought, and her ideals are finding their reflections in her works — ourselves; but the thought is not ended here, for we, in turn, are reflecting the spirit of Mary Washington College. Her traditions with the students are the school. They are one and inseparable. And just as the artist surveys his handiwork, just so Mary Washington as our Alma Mater surveys us; and we survey our school. We have eagerly assembled in this volume our thoughts of gay moments and sober ones, of play and study, of stately columns, of friendship and love. This book, comrades, is not only a symbol of Mary Washington; it is Mary Washington — because it is a part of it. It is your book; it is you who have made it, for it is you who have lived it. We have been glad to sing the aimals of the 1943 Battlefield; we hope you will be happy in receiving it; proud to possess it.