St Margarets Academy - Dayseye Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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 And I am blessed beyond compare while with benignant looks From home's familiar shelves they smile, my pleasant world of books. 23

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“The blitheness of the morning and the solemn hush of night Are in the pleasant world of books, for one who reads aright. 22

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7 jc Dayesve w i Our City A Short Story HPhe story of Minneapolis. like the story of many western cities, reads like a fairy tale. It is the story of a golden dream come true. It is the story of a rainbow promise crystallized into changeless tints. It is the story of the life-work of a true-hearted. God-fearing generation, lured by the call of the West to the Land of sky-blue Waters. The setting wafts us back some two hundred years, to the Falls of St. Anthony, where, on a sultry August day. Father Hennepin, then a Sioux captive, stood at the head of the splashing waters, and raising his cross, gave them the name which has not been washed away. Nearly a century later. Carver stood gazing upon these same falls, and envisioned a great empire due to the development of their vast power. But neither the rapture of a Hennepin nor the prophecy of a Carver gave us our beautiful City, our Minneapolis of today. This transformation of a wilderness into a great metropolis: of wild hunting grounds into homes, and parks, and gardens: of tepees and wigwams into majestic buildings for business, church and school, was not wrought by a fairy wand. It is the monument reared by the courage, the faith, the sacrifice of that noble band of pioneers, who laid their foundations upon a rock, and in passing on. handed the torch of vision to their children, and their children’s children. To all these it is due that railroads and paved highways cover Indian and camp wagon trails: that the honk horn and the traffic whistle have hushed the howl of the wolf: that the chime of bells calling to worship have silenced the war whoop of Chippewa and Sioux: that the anvil replaces the tomahawk, and the cross the calumet. May all honor be to the makers and the builders of our City: and all glory to the good God who gave them the place and the spirit to build. 24