University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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THE quiVER MEMORIES MEMORIES of school life are fast bound up with half-forgotten impressions of the out-of-doors. A touch of soft wind on one’s cheek brings back with startling vividness the first days of spring, when one loitered on the way to an eight-o’clock and tried to inhale enough freshness of the morning for the rest of the day. An odd-shaped cloud, white against the blue sky, recalls a summer day of quiet and stillness, with chanticleer's call drifting lazily through the open classroom windows. The smell of a bonfire makes a day in autumn, long forgotten, seem real again, and visions of red and yellow leaves on the campus, a purple haze beyond the trees, and silver cobwebs hanging mysteriously in the air. come unsummoned. And sometimes, for no apparent cause, tantalizing memories come to mind, and for a moment one is not living in the present, but in the past. It is hard to identify these fleeting memories. They seem to be a composite of times spent out of doors, of many crisp, fresh mornings, of many sunny noons, of many starry evenings. How worth while it all was and is! The fine trees on our campus, the long, shady streets of the town, the pretty lake, the broad Fox, with its green banks—all these bring delightful thoughts of happy times at the OSHKOSH NORMAL. Six

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