Salem State University - Clipper Yearbook

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To Miss Dodge, Breathing forth a gentle fragrance Like a dear sweetbrier rose, Scattering its bit of sweetness On each passing breeze that blows. Cheerful like the blessed sunshine Of an Indian summer noon, Making troubles fade and vanish And the whole world seem in tune. Brave and dauntless as the oak-tree Battling with the wind and storm g Should one bow before the Storm-God Weakly yield to Pain the palm? With a heart kept young and open To each human joy and fear, In the shadowy realms of book-land Or the land of now and here. Loving all things fair and holy, Striving that unseeing eyes May be opened to the beauty That about them hidden lies. Knowing with a certain knowledge That on one most glorious day Wrong shall be forever conquered, Right take up her healing sway. Such the gracious little woman Who has found a royal place In the heart of every school-girl She has strengthened for life's race When that race seems long and weary Rough the road and dim the goal, Then fresh courage shall be gathered From the thought of this brave soul

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Philip. It was a cold rainy day in the late fall. The wind was blowing furiously, and the men and women, as they hurried home after their day's work, were beaten about at the mercy of its cruel, cutting blast. The electric lights glimmered and flickered in the growing dusk. A boyish figure, pitifully thin and wan, passed along the crowded thoroughfare. One hand clasped a battered and frayed violin-case, the other was thrust into his pocket, not for warmth, but in order that it might grasp the money, the precious money, that was to buy so many good things for Grandad, to make him well again. His childish heart grew sad as he thought of the patient sufferer lying so still, in the unfurnished desolate room he called home. As the rain came down upon the upturned face of the child it mingled with bitter tears which told how hard was the struggle he was daily making. Suddenly rousinghimself from his revery he grasped the shabby case more tightly, pulled the tattered cap down farther on his head, and walked more swiftly. Threading his way through narrow streets overtopped by crowded tenement houses, along hyways and alleys, he came at last to a door which he quietly opened. The room was cheer- less and forlorn but the lad thought not of this, his only thought was of the figure lying on a rude eoueh in the corner. Rushing tothe bed and kneeling down he asked, H A re you better, dear Grandad? The weary eyes opened and rested with a look of deep love and tenderness on the boyish face. H Yes, Philip, much better 5 then with a sigh of contentment! Play. Slowly the boy took the instrument from its case and pressing it lovingly against his cheek began to play. Strains of music, earessingly sweet and tender, filled the room. Vueouseious of time or of his grandfather's presence the boy played on and on, soothed by the charm of his own melody, until he ceased and looked toward the couch for the smile which was his best reward. A twang from the instrument, a shriek from the boy, and he threw himself on the bed. -f U my firandad, my dear flrandad, I love youg come back to your Philip. Solis shook thi- frauu- of the lad. Slowly, and still more slowly the sobs came until at last the ohild was still. The lire went out, the room grew colder and Colder, and the only sound was the beating of the rain against the window-pane, and the sighing of the wuul. G. A. B. '05. Model Remarks by Model Children. .X magnet, if la-I loose, will turn north and south. Shi- had a diamond and it falu-re-cl in the sun. 'I'Iu-u- wwf- so many piuuavlos in the royal tower that in the distance it looked lilo- iugmy' spike-s on top of a rock. Au i-xf'lanuatm'y sc-nlmwe is a surprising sentence, that is, when you say it quickly. Nlaluer is a solid, liquid or gas which eauuot oem-upy the same space at once. N