Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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The Nassau H eraid With faces set to the bright-rising sun, Of danger and death let the coward prateg We have pledged our manhood, and one by one We fight till we die, or the Right Be done: To Vict'ry we go, nor heed we our fate! 26

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Ivy Oration A. E. STUART. Fellow Classmates and Friends of Princeton:- The occasion which calls us together to-day is an old one. The task to be performed is small in deed, yet great in its import. The planting of the Class Ivy is at once a memorial and a symbol. It is the memorial of a body about to leave Princeton and dissolve into its separate units of humanity. It will bear testimony to the fact that the class of IQO8, after four years of domicile in this institution has com- pleted its undergraduate life and that its members are now enrolled among that wider fraternity known as alumni. Moreover this Ivy is a symbol of how our hearts will ever turn back to Princeton, no matter where we may be. As the tendrils of this small plant will creep over the walls of Old North, spreading farther and farther apart, yet ever dependent upon a comomn root for each step of their growth, so the sons of Nassau, scattering at graduation, remain bound together in spirit through a love for their Alma Mater that is deep and sincere. Long ago we pledged ourselves to the traditions of Princeton. We entered with avowed intentions of be- coming loyal Princetonians and we have found the very atmosphere full of that ineffable something which is called Princeton Spirit . From the first her traditions charmed us. They were to us the magic note of by-gone genera- tions which time had aided with a sort of cumulative veneration and they enhanced our eagerness to become a part of Princeton that we too might live amidst the tradit- ions of the past and through their influence become a united 27