Mercyhurst College - Thesaurus Yearbook (Erie, PA)

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F O R E W O R D the far horizon's rim Doth a whole tract of heaven disclose! HIS EFFORT to set down, in miniature and with some impression of finality, a sequence of college years has been inspired by our love for Mercyhurst and by our own quite normal interest in our growth as stu- dents. No theme is closer to man than himself. And no theme is closer to astudent than the biography of her college days. ln the very gusto of those days is the last expiring breath of youth-that stretch of life which wins an immortality of memory in the doting reminiscences of later years that fondly coddle the past in the leisure of their own ma- turity. The assiduities of our college days, their fitful humors, their flar- ing enthusiasms, their truancies, their flitting sunshine and extended shadows alternately and unremittingly ringing the changes in the nim- ble dance and flight of hours, their levities, their passionate despairs, their deep draughts of truth have driven us constantly upward to new horizons which possess a distance worthy of the skies 5 from whose height is 'lto be seen the distance of this World.

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The Most Reverend John Mark Gannon, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D A DISTINGUISHED LEADER IN AFFAIRS OF THE CHRISTIAN AND COMMON WEAL . . . A LOVER AND PROMOTER OF EDUCATION . . . CHANCELLOR OF MERCYHURST COLLEGE

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DEDICATIO TO THE DEAN OF MERCYHURST COLLEGE, Mother M. Borgia Egan, Q. M., Whose vision and objectives in the field of education, resurgent courage in the presence of difficulties, vital and compelling personality, and genius for inspiring loyalty have crystallized, in a definite and durable form, the spirit of cooperation which has fashioned the Walls and the soul of Mercyhurst, We dedicate this the first volume of PRAETERITA