Rockford College - Recensio / Cupola Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Sophomore Class History , OUNTING a year three hundred and sixty five days, calling it two years since we came together, and allowing for each of those years, one hundred and twenty days of vacation, we are able to conclude that the Sophomore class has existed at Rockford College four hun- dred and ninety days. That we may look with a judicious historical eye over the memories of those days, let us take the rats from our hair and with them shed all our youthful vanitiesg let us disentangle ourselves from the present, drop from the school and its affairsg step, say fifty years into the future, and seat ourselves,-a nice cozy bunch of old ladies,-around some one of our tea-tables. Give us a room at dusk, with the curtains half-drawn, leaving between them just a peep of snowy, twilight landscape, furnish this room in the dark hangings and brussels and fringed upholstery which old ladies so love and which hold memories as naturally as they hold dust' have somewhere an old rose Jar shedding through the room the perfume of flowers picked and withered two decades before mingle with this perfume the warmth and glow of a cheery hearth fire, which may if you please pick from out the dusk the gilded frames on the wall and play softly among the dishes on the table and glint agaii st the little tea kettle singing cozily in the midst Arrange us thus comfortably and we will without doubt become as any old ladies would under the circumstances quite pensive and reminiscent Let Helen or if there has been among us a more persistent memento hunter let her have her memory book at hand But before we open the book let us each take our cup of tea and draw up about the fire and so, with the light glowing up in to our dim old ey es, after all these stage directions let us look into the coals and see what memories come to us There will be the Alma Mater as we saw her last, sitting high among her campus trees Linden and Chapel and Middle and the other halls beyond all grey and reverend faded or fading from a ruddy red brick youth of half a century before the color blown from her by the winds which have beat against her and washed away by the rains which have fallen upon her and 2 . 1 6 7 25 Y ' Y. rv . v -v a . w . ' 7 . , 5 1 . zs . .1 , . -Y . . .7. . zs zs ' v as s ' ID 7 . . . a a 1 a ' 1 1 ' a v 7 3 - . V . . . 7 o 1 a 7 . - . 7 , w zs V . . 7 . 7 . . v