University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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This record of an honorable and happy college career explains in part the warm interest which Mr. Billings has always taken in his Alma Mater. Some men who reach eminence seem to be willing to forget the college which in their youth laid for them the lowly steps on which they have ascended. Some carry away from college jealousies, grudges, a sense of disappointment and failure. But a true-hearted alumnus of a college is like a true- hearted boy, who remains always a boy toward his mother, and who after going around the world thinks his own mother the dearest and most beautiful of all mothers. In all that Mr. Billings has said and written of his Alma Mater, in all that he has done and is doing for her, we seem to see, not patronage, not largesse, not the munificence of a millionaire, so much as the gratitude, the admiration, the love of a faithful son. And we know it will gratify him to hear, as it is a pleasure to us to say, that we believe the spirit of the institution to be the same as that which from out the olden time keeps his affection ever warm and true, and we hope that the same wise and kindly mother which fitted him for his brilliant career will in the future produce other as appre- ciative and grateful and generous alumni as Frederick Billings. r- T'N 7

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CQowpief. S the wearied traveler, struggling up some precipitous steep, imbibes fresh vigor for his fainting limbs as he sees the end isnear, so, reader, we of the ARIEL board hasten with quickened zeal to write the word, last in composition, though nrst in order, that is to usher you on to the scene of our undertaking. kPause then one moment, ere the bell strikes, and the curtain rolls up that now conceals our work, and listen toour justification. We have tried to give you a passing glimpse of college life. If we seem to have fashioned a mosaic too absurd to harmonize with reason, recall your own college days. Do they not come back painted with curious visions resembling the flickering shadows of electric lights, advancing and retreating with quick, recurrent flashes, weird, fantastic shapes, spasmodic and ntfulg shades of sombre hue interspersed with shining coruscations of light g and withal so merry in their gambols, and so varied in their aspect that sorrow was as a thing forgotten, and through every cloud could be discerned the silver lining? If years have elapsed since this vision ceased to be a reality, let this recall it, for then we know you will be in a spirit to criticise us fairly, as neophytes sim- ply in the broad held of letters, who have neither hoped nor tried to produce a volume deserving to be classed as literature. judge us theii, from the proper standpoint. If severe in our strictures, do not condemn us as ungenerous , if somewhat harsh in rebuke, certainly impartial 3 if exaggerated in detail, remember that hyper- bole is a common failingg finally, if aught in our pages touches you 9 ,