St Ignatius College - Ignatian Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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E ATQUE VALE-Hail and farewell a greeting and a parting-yet of the few star he-set moments that linger betwixt them, is this book.-It is planned as a chronicle of Today, but withal there drifts the un- dertones of Yesterday and the far Hung rhapsodies of Tomorrow. The chord of an hour is sounded and a thousand kindred hours are thronged in sym- phony. A dim, far yesterday, swirled in the Wraith of years, and in its soft translucent lustre appears an infant city and an infant college, nestled in a wind- swept valley, guarded hy a Coronet of hills. A plain wooden building-a group of sainted men from lands old in culture have brought with them to a virgin soul, a seed, and through Godls infinite good- ness, have planted and nurtured it ,midst the sham! hles of a seaport and the roaring of a mining camp.

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4 rose dawn of the Don has paled, the gray dawn of the Pioneer has faded . . . they are now memories in the drowsy eve- ning that colors the century. There is a delicate fragrance, a soft loveliness in this mauve decade that embraces within its span of years soft twilights in deep shadowed corridors of the college, long evenings when the scent of verbena loiters in the lamplit streets . . . The shadows lengthen-the ghosts of evening tune their lyres and sing with hushed voices the anthems of a century. The faint light fades and drifts along the streets, touching in after glow the classic walls of the college, in whose misty lealiness of bowered walks a murmuring fountain whispers the dreams that youth in kindred springs have confided in the moist shadows of its graceful sanctuary.