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

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Volume VIII 21 l‘ K H S I D K N I Class of Nineteen Hundred and Two YELL. . . . Hoorah! Hoorah ! Rickey, tickey, ta — wa, Williky, wolliky, Holyoke — oliky ! Wah hoo, bah zoo, Holyoke. Holyoke, 190?. ! MOTTO . . Beop Jtapofaeste COLOR . . Crimson FLOWER Jacqueminot Rose

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A F T E K T I! E L E C T U R E Professor Blank of Harvard enjoys the privi.ege of mee.ing personaHy .he young .adies of the X Department and a few of .he Faculty

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22 The Llamarada The Building of 1902 WITH IN the limits of the land pertaining to the College of Many Days stands a building, now almost complete. It is now four years since its beginning, and in that time three other buildings have risen about it, each surrounded by a throng of busy workers. T hose who crowd about this central spot are fewest ; yet at the beginning they numbered nigh ten score. They were of different occu- pations and of different talents, and they came from far and near to the river-valley where stands the College of Many Days. With speed they chose leaders who appointed their various tasks, and so their work began. ’Twas hardest at the very first; for deep and strong foundations were to be laid, and that with mathematical precision. So from the store- house of knowledge close at hand the workers brought out parallelepipeds, plinths, and prisms, under whose heavy weight they often staggered. Yet they fell not beneath the load, for the steadfast spirit within them never failed ; and when the spring days brightened into summer, there stood the foundations firm in place. Then the workers rejoiced, and for a space they tarried in their work. Again their tools were in their hands; and now they called to aid them all the resources known to science. Unceasingly they toiled, early and late ; strange mutterings escaped their lips, and again and again they weighed and measured each bit of building material. Yet they never faltered ; and soon their rejoicing was even greater than before, for the building was half complete. When for a third time they took up their work, their numbers were much diminished, but their courage was unshaken ; and now they toiled philosophically, but alas! not always calmly. Once, in their haste for progress, they burned what seemed a useless scaffolding, only to discover