St Mary of the Woods College - Les Bois Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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'f ' ,, Children 0 Mary EULALIE Y. GEOFFRION, President MAY SMITH, Secretary Mary Imlrzaculaieu Pure as the snow, we say. Ah! never flake Fell through the air One-tenth as fair l As Mary's soul was made for Christ's dear sake. Virgin Immaculate, The whitest whiteness of the Alpine snows, Beside thy stainless spirit, dusky grows. Pure as the stars? Ah! never lovely night Wore in its diadem So pure a gem As that which fills the ages with its light. Virgin Immaculate, The peerless splendors of thy soul by far Outshine the glow of heaven's serenest star. ELEANORE C. DONNELLY. EULALIE Y. GEOFFRION The Children of Mary take as their model one whom it is indeed impossible perfectly to imitate, yet the joy and peace in striving to be like Ourlmmaculate Lady, to imitate from afar and how- ever faintly her whom the angels' serve, who has been the inspira- tion of countless noble lives, makes the Children of Mary the most beloved of our Societies. --. .Q ,, ,-, 7- - ,PH -T Tx:-Tv --A Q , H J , VA- . :.. -s .. .....,., - M- -,......'. - - ' .-. .,.- , . ' S ' A4 Ninety-nine

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,IX bk T ..,,.i:z': , ' Xxx I :5-- , . '- ' ' -...Jw--I AEP' F Tw 'P -4 HELEN L. HOGAN The Socieiy 0 Leffers HELEN L. HOGAN, Chairman PATIA BREEDLOVE, Secretary The Society of Letters was established in order to cultivate a keener apprecia- tion of the best in literature, and also to encourage the members to write good, clear, and eiective English. The Society confines its studies chiefly to current poetry. At the semi-formal meetings of the year the Society discussed among other poetry that of Louise Imogen Guiney, John Oxenham, Shane Leslie, Joyce Kilmer, Father Charles O'Donnell, John Maseiield, Robert Service, Ralph Hodg- son, Charles Warren Stoddard, Amy Lowell, Harriet Monroe, Dennis McCarthy, Robert Bridges, and Thomas Walsh. After the discussion of poetry the members read and reviewed their exchange papers, critical and otherwise. It was due to the energy of the Society that the college newspaper, Fagots,,' was founded. The program of February eighteenth illustrates the work of the Society: Program Appreciations Criticisms The Poems of Robert Hugh Benson ..... Miss Phalen The Cinch and Mother . . .. . .Miss Geoffrion The Dead Musician and Other Poems, A Turn in the Road ..... .... M iss Harper Father Charles O'Donnell ............ Miss Keller American Ideals ...... ..... M iss Hayes Vers Libre ................ . ....... Miss Geoifrion Diplomatic Days . .. ...... Miss Keller The Daffodil Fields, Masefield .... .. . .Miss Decker Meditation ....................... Miss Graham Joyce Kilmer's Poems ................ Miss Hogan To Mother ............. . ........ Miss Breedlove A Soldier and His Mail from Home .... .Miss Davis Charity .............. . ............ Miss Phalen S 'Aa ' One hundred and one