Susquehanna University - Lanthorn Yearbook (Selinsgrove, PA)

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Greetings: — To the faculty, alumni, friends and students of Susquehanna University the class of 191!) extend greeting. To us lias fallen the task of preparing this Lanthorn and it is our de- sire that it will meet with your approval. We have tried to portray faith- fully every side of the life at Susquehanna. We hope we have been honest and impartial, still we ask you not to consider seriously everything that is said in this book. Some of it has been written merely to entertain and if some shot sent by random finds lodgement in a tender spot we beg you to think of it lightly and forget not that editors are but human and their knowledge limited. Many of our classmates have answered the call of our country so that our class is no longer large in numbers and our task has not been easy. But we have done our best and if this book affords pleasure to our friends we will be amply repaid for all our labor. That the hawthorn may grow in value as the years pass, is the earnest wish of the class of 1919. — The Editors. Page Eight

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Good Bye, Soldier Boys! CHE lads that go now, high hearted as were they, go to hleed and do and die in a war that is fought under water, on the surface, and in the air above. They go to face the clouds of poisonous gas and the barrage of fire. They go in the face of all these, to give blow for blow, to pit American wits, initiative, and courage against these qualities in the servants of imperial ambition. They go to do more. They go to prove that they are the soldiers of a great Republic whose people are civilized. They go to write it into history that humanity, mercy, and justice have their place in war as in peace. They go to victory, in which the despoilers of the homes of n on combatants shall be punished, the monsters who deflower women shall die wretchedly, the inhuman wretches who condemn noncombatants to slavery shall pass under the rod. They go to compel the Huns who have violated all law. divine and human, to drain to the dregs the bitter cup of sorrow they have pressed to the lips of the weak and the innocent. They go, God ' s own avengers of the unspeakable suffering of the people of Belgium, Northern France. Poland. Serbia, Rumania, and Armenia. As they march, unseen in the clear air above them are the spirits of the Ameri- can mothers and babies that perished in the roaring sea, murdered in the Lusitania. They go to cleanse the earth of the men who began by violating treaties and have progressed by violating the common promptings of humanity which have been held sacred even by the red Indians of America and the black tribes of Africa. They are the armed guards of American honor, of the covenants of Al- mighty God. On this great mission we send them with every blessing, with every ascription of honor. They go to prove that this great Republic is great not only in material things, in its proud cities, its far-flung fields, and its laden orchards and purpling vineyards, but great in the ineffable things of the spirit, in the courage of its people and its purpose to fling high and far the banners of the best civilization created by man. Good-bye. boys, acquit yourselves like men! — Oakland Enquirer. Page Seven

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The Lanthorn Staff Editor-in-Chief Harry F. Shoaf Business Manager Harry W. Papenfus Assistant Business Manager Christine Z. Schoch .1 dvertising Managers Cyril I. H. Speigelmire Y. Clair Bastian Statisticians Jessie C. McCool Wm. Roscoe Treaster Artist Celia L. K. Speigelmire j Page Nine