Stephens College - Stephensophia Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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J ki footnotes on footprints stop your whining, old one, dreary, praise no more your static ways, for your days are waning hours filled witli dead, decaying dreams. Itell us not, in shuffling cadence: that hfe is futile, love a day dream, happiness illusion, or god a myth. pay for our dreams, you arrogant yovith pay for your dreams with sacrifice. you who look heavenward vulnerable with trust pay for your love with pain. realities blur after gazing at sun, ■and the debt must bupaad, ■ ■■! ■ ■ ■ though the hope is in vain. the debt witnepaid for our shoulderssre strong and our strefigth is imtried. though-Sometimes divided, our ranks recQiiverge, and our pion§aiiil)l0od currents us on, fo r we e defined by the aims? oftS gespast • as a beach fey the tide the§weepinsj? ves erase the past; but bmldi et upon this shore andi arnp dor footfrrints on the clean-swept strand ■ let notour feet be slowed nor seared ,.Jc y b - »i ng grains of mid-day sand, nor let our hopes l)e chilled ' .by icy waves of waiting a rfioment Mpsted injury. Vi

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dedication dr. louise dudley a college is more than fine buildings and semester credits, more than budgets and committees, more than books and test tubes, for a college to exist there must be minds proposing problems to the laboratory, minds stabbing the classroom silence with dagger definitions, minds feeding upon the rows of books endlessly asking. more than bricks and glass, a college is a community of thinking minds. to make this definition of a college more than a beguiling phrase has been the thirty-five year endeavor of dr. louise dudley. her name, synonymous with humanities at Stephens, has come to stand for vigor in teaching, for broad scholarship, for patience and humor, for intellectual adventure, to watch her work in the classroom is to witness the act of tliinking in public. therefore not for her honors or her years do we dedicate this book to her. not for her kindness, her friendliness, it is rather for her dedication to thought that we in turn dedicate, committing ourselves thereby to the high ideal in education which she leaves us as a legacy and a challenge.

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