Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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Should you ask us whence these stories Whence these records and traditions, Telling to our world—the college— A ll that maidens hoped was secret; All the youthful hopes and passions Of the merry little Freshmen; All the failures of the efforts Made by patronizing Sophomores; All the trials over Logic, Special topics, and such matters As are known to hard worked Juniors; AI I the little faults and foibles, Which the class of ninety-seven Has in four short years developed; We should answer, wc should tell you, ‘4 From the corridors and midway,

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 MARY LYON HIE FOUNDER OF OUR COLLEGE THIS LLAMARADA IS DEDICATED BY THE CLASS OF ’( 8. “In a gleeful mood, quite natural with her. her tones would fairly dance, and her merry speech and laugh would send waves of laughter through the hall.”

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From gymnasium ami chapel, In the building which now is not, From the various famous houses Where the maidens now are dwelling, We repeat them as we heard them.'' Ye who love your Alma Mater, Love the records o f the classes, That like voices from afar off Shall recall you from the future, Speak in words so strong and graphic That you fairly are transported To the dear old days at college, Keep this volume till the future, Keep this issue of our annual. Ye who oft have brought from To the Notch or to the Mountain Curious bits of wood or lichens, Who have often saved some trife— I Valnut shell or bit of paper With some nonsense written on it— From a ‘ ‘ spread where mirth was mistress | Who went peering ' neath the ruins, Seeking bits of broken china, Caring for them as for treasures,— V Not for their intrinsic value For you know well that they have none— But because they form a nucleus Round which pleasant thoughts may gather, Forming in their aggregation Pictures of some happy meeting— rambles lake and keep this Llama RADA Keep this record of our school year. t