Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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!!!tc lil Q rt 'r 5 1--zz N: YOU Don' .l1t'llIf'4'1'S of Hn' Class of 1923: The mention uf the word life in connection with the human family sug- gests to the mind the mental picture of youth, youth comprehending all the charming qualities that go to make up the appearance of life. In this aspect youth symbolizes life. Hence, when I think of youth, I think of life in the fullness uf vivacity, charm and beauty. and when I think of YOU my thoughts are of hoth life and youth. Many definitions have heeu given of life, ranging from that of the cynic to that of the philosopher. The detinition that I would offer is: LIFE IS A I5 L'Nl5I,lf Ulf Rlil..XTIONSHIl'S. The bundles vary in size with the char- acters of the individuals. Many people have never opened the bundle and many who have opened it have never assorted or understood its contents. In a general way these relationships are classified into three kinds: kinships to thingsg kinships to folksg and kinships to the Super-human and Eternal. The quality of life is dependent upon the order and the emphasis that one places on them in living these relationships. Poise and charm of the individual are lint exponents uf a properly classified and emphasized life. It is the mis- placement of the importance of these relationships which results in discord, and human wrecks, hut there is an abundance of life in the preservation in their proper order and in their several spheres of these classes of relation- ships. Solomon is accredited with saying that there is a time for all things. He appreciated the fact that the order in which a thing is done, or the time there- of, on many occasions determines whether it is right or whether it is wrong. Ile recognized the importance of putting tirst things first. XYhether or not the supernatural means to you God, or an Eternal Force not ourselves that makes for righteousness , or Jehovah, or fas with myselfj the Trinity, and whether or not you consider Jesus Christ a teacher, a phi- losopher, or las in my case, alsoj the Savior, you must realize the practical application of emphasizing the kingdom of righteousness first, and secondly, the hrotherhood of man. In these two truths demonstrated lie the fullness and the ahundance uf life even in this our mundane existence. Douhtless, every one of us would acquiesce in this order of importance, our differences a1'e principally in living them. lflut YK JL' mean more than life to me. For I cannot think of you merely in the generality of youth. I have dwelt in your well-ordered lives in the happy relation-in its many and complex manifestations-of friendship. I rejoice in the memory uf each of you as my friend. It is a joy not of usurpa- tion, hut of realization, of having lived in the sphere of the Iiamiliness of fra- ternal affection. .Xnd may there always ahide in you the fullness of life,-the ahundance of life: the growth and development of the propriety of kinships: kinship to God, kinship to folks, and kinship to things: the tirst and greatest of these is 'to Gull. And as for me, there are life and youth and YOU, but the greatest of these tto mel is YOU! Your f1'1'v11d, RIARTIIA SIELEY. -aft I8 Fe.-