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AUTUMN There is something, in the Autumn that is native to my blood— Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme. W ith the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time. Autumn! What magic is concentrated in that word! Leaves crunching underfoot, hillsides dizzy with color, and frosty dawns that call the laggards from their sleep. The harvested fields lie naked; a wind hums through the cornstalks that stand like exclamation points against the brilliant blue of the sky. With every gust and whirl the wind re-seeds the earth. The air is filled with eddying clouds laden with the germs that a golden autumn has brought to rich maturity. They seek a home in the beds of dried leaves, in the musty loam of October. Here they will lie throughout the coming days of winter, unheeded by the careless passerby, but slowly germinating into full and productive life. For this is the season of preparation. Without it spring could never come again. While all the world outdoors is undergoing this vigorous change, academic life proceeds in an analogous manner. School re-opens after the summer holiday and the first weeks are indeed a time of whirlwind and bustling activity. Excited freshmen scurry around the halls hunting frantically for their next class room. Even seniors join in the excitements of a school year just beginning. But in time things settle dow n, order is restored out of this chaos, and routine reigns supreme. The new seeds planted begin to take root and send out their tendrils in all direct- ions. While field and highway echo w ith the shouts of football fans and track con- testants. other sports, intellectual rather than physical, also begin their career. Debaters gird their strength in maiden efforts to conquer their opponents by the sharpness of their wits and tongues: amateur actors con their parts with fervor; musicians spend long hours rehearsing the tunes for the next musical comedy or concert. The whole school is a beehive of industry, and the sound of the workers is loud and full of promise. Less spectacular, but none the less important, are those seeds planted at this time in classroom and laboratory. They too lie almost forgotten in the dark reaches of the mind as the seeds scattered heedlessly by the west wind every autumn lie neglected in the secret depths of hillside and valley. Rut like them, they shall come w ith the w arm winds of spring to the fullness of their power and bear the fruit they were destined to produce. For autumn is the season of beginnings. The wind trumpets a challenge to the blood: the world is electrified by a passion to begin its life anew. Vigor flows back into the earth exhausted by the harvests of summer. Tree and field and sky sent! their message into the blood a message of creation. Gladly do we turn our hearts and efforts to join in the universal urge towards a new seed-time that leads to the rich harvests of the future.
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