University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Into the land of sky-hluc water and island-dotted lakes, where heart-strings were tuned to the music of murmuring pines, there trickled bands of courageous pioneers over an ancient trail. The chords of the rustling ivilderness throbbed in their souls, and they pressed on and on, doivn the Tra L OF HL ' DSON BAY, following it southward in the countless footsteps of silent redmen who long since had vanished into the swaying foliage of the North.

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|| ■« ■ T ' TTTT ' T V T TT TTTVTTTY f VTTf Tf Ci Bte I Scenes of Minnesota II Minnesota, the State and University III The Colleges IV The Juniors V Maroon and Qold Days VI Representative Minnesotans VII Athletics VIII Organizations IX The Hysterical Qoofer

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THE PRAIRIES OF THE SOUTH Over the rollirig pnurics that stretched endlessly in the South, betiveen cool, um- brageous groves and clusters of green spreading trees, oxen plodded before crude ploughs that turned over neic and fertile soil. But later, beneath the clear skies, horses dragged the gleaming blades across the fields until gi ' eat creatures of iron and steel appeared, moving tirelessly 3 et noise- lessly owr the land. Then, carai ' ans of people came along the narrow, curving roadways, lured ever on by the freshness, the beauty, and the plenty of a strange and boimteful coimtry, and spirals of thin gray smoke curled upward from the chim- neys of small and happy duellings.