Salem College - Sights and Insights Yearbook (Winston-Salem, NC)

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i -.Pw These same old fathers would wonder still more could they note the busy hum and stir of Salem ' s twin-sister, Winston, grown up by her side, teeming -ith life and business energy, these sisters with well-nigh a century bet veen ■ .:;; .i .- r them. They represent the two great elements of the world — conservatism and progress, counterbalancing and keeping each other steady and well poised — with a population of between twenty-five and thirty thousand. But Salem is known all over our continent as a great cducaiional center. Her Academy and College has now for one hundred and seven years been a ¥ A ¥m f ? i:« ? ::: : ;..

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mM3 ' %Ji . Chnstmas joy to be followed in regular course by the blessed Eastertide, the solemn services that have left their impress on many a young heart and life. Nor would the scene be complete without the figure of our beloved Bishop Rondthaler, who has enshrined himself in the hearts of so many hundreds of our students. SCHOOL We walk up the Avenue and note the great cedar trees keepmg their tireless watch of a hundred years over the quiet resting-place of the dead; we think there is no lovelier place on earth than this avenue, and the peaceful graveyard to which it leads. There are many magnificent cities of the dead adorned with costliest marble figures and domes, but not one of them possesses the restful charm of this, so appropriately named God ' s Acre, of Salem After life s fitful fever, after its duties well performed, these silent inhabitants s eep well, caring nothing, so far as we know, for what takes place around them. rk

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wide-reaching power, whose influence has been feU in every section where her Alumnae have gone — from Alaska to Central and South America, from the 1 Wp w i wSm K f CEDAR AVENUE Atlantic Slope to the Golden Gate. As the older Alumna revisits her Alma Mater, she strolls thoughtfully around the large buildings erected since her school days; she goes to Society Hall, through the luxurious apartments of the ■ TA ' mME: - ' i f J. 7