New Jersey College of Pharmacy - Scarlet Ray Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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' fthe Scarletkaq r o WfJere ibe Brook :xml River meet. LONGFELLOW. With graduation we are entering a new phase in our lives. From the hands of the moulder into the arms of the world and the active phase of usefulness and service. It is not long ago that we were but the crude clay from which the hand of the master was to fashion a masterpiece. The work is never com- plete. Though beautiful it acquires strength and worth from the furnace of hard knocks and practical experience. Up through the years since we first entered the portals of a school as irre- sponsible, carefree youngsters we have acquired little by little, the knowledge which is the heritage of our lives-we have laid the solid foundation for the edihce that will serve us for the remainder of our lives. These first attempts at gaining knowledge passed like a dream and prepared us for a more serious phase of our careers. High School is the most memorable period of our lives. There we come face to face with the bigger, worthier things of life. There, perhaps, we meet our Hrst loves-the sweetest ones-and we experience the first hard knocks that awaken us to the true nature of life and of the world. There, too, our characters are fashioned from the basic clay laid down in earlier years. We be- come men and women and the world is at our feet. We become its heritors- the spark of life glowing with unshadowed brilliancy within our breasts. And like the brook, fed by many a spring, gathers volume and rushes onward with ever-increasing force toward the river's broad expanse, we enter our college career. No phase of our lives is so important. Here the master moulder applies his Hnishing touches with utmost Care and patience, finishing every detail unto perfection. Here, also, we come to the crossing of the roads and are required to choose the path we wish to tread. We discern at the journey's end, the city of promise-all agleam-and with the star of hope in the firmament of heaven to light our way. We tread boldly on, turning neither to left nor right, but with resolute steps strive to achieve the chosen goal. And so like the brook, gaining volume at every turn, we rush on to the meeting of the river and stand upon the threshold of new and greater things. Broad and long is the river, winding through valleys unexplored, between forest clad shores and towering hills, and far away through the realm of unborn years. The way is not always smooth, at intervals huge boulders impede its even progress or treacherously hide beneath its surface. Here it leaps a water- fall and there it forms a turbulent cataract, till at its journey's end it merges with the sea. Its passing is unmarked except for its song of joy that is wafted 'to the winds and echoed through the land that we may know its theme and judge therefrom the river's worth. Even so, we are facing the broad river of our lives that will carry us to the waters of the sea, which is rest from toil-the reward of work well done. The road is beset with many dangers and pitfalls. No one's life is smooth. It is the lot of man to know hardships, grief and suffering. So, like the river, we must always find the way and smilingly reach the end of our tether. May the song we carry through our lives be one of joy and happiness in our work and we be judged by it. -F. L. T. wage 1231

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