Northrop Collegiate School - Tatler Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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£7 C e. a i I e r (Written especially for The Taller by Miss Carse. March 29. 1917.) Give to your generation something true And strong, O girls of Northrop! Preserve and use your youth, your health, your beauty. For nobler things than passing littleness, However bright. Let not the crowd determine Life’s course for you. The soul of power stands not Irresolute, but seeing right from wrong. Makes choice. The burden of the choice, the danger Matter not. With high conviction fear departs. A mind thus set at rest becomes a part Of God’s great working force within His world. Then rise, ye women of the Future! Will ye prepare to be His messengers? No thoughtless sentimentalists He needs. Who know not how to search the cause that lies Behind Life’s joy, mistake or grief. But ripened souls whose hearts and minds apace To noble poise have grown, and felt the thrill Of conquered self, touching Eternal things With true humility. ' Lis these He calls. i o i r Page 5