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

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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

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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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Volume VIII 23 as it vanished in smoke and flame their need of its valid logical support; but ever afterwards they strove to exercise the virtue of prudence. And now as their work has neared its ending, each has striven as the impulse led toward the completion and the beautifying of the building. Some have adorned it with statues of the great and good of former times ; some have chiseled out inscriptions of noble sayings; others still have sought to reproduce upon its surface the beauty which lives about them. Each and all have toiled, until now nothing remains but the last and highest tower which crowns their work and marks the commence- ment of greater tasks. Slowly the workers lay the stones in place ; pausing, they look upon the building they have made and loved in a silence filled with regret ; yet when they go their way, each to attempt some other task alone, they will not be utterly given up to sadness; for what- ever strength, whatever beauty has gone to form the completed building before them is still their own possession, and abides with them forever.