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CENTENNIAL An old grad looking for familiar landmarks! As from 1863: The Stockbridge House, a sugar maple tree, Mount Warner, misty in antiquity — These, Senator, reminding him of thee. As from 1885: Old South, the Chapel with its strident bell. And Prexy ' s hillside house — these used to tell That Colonel Clark and Chadbourne labored well. As from 1923: The War Memorial, Alumni Field, Clark Hall, the Abbey — these have long revealed How Butterfleld adorned Old Aggie ' s shield. And now as of to-day: - M Building is an all-but-idle shell. The Chapel too. Abbey and Clark as well; The chime forecasts their almost certain knell. The old grad thinks of teachers he would praise. The men who stirred one ' s soul in by-gone days. Two buildings do commemorate a dean, And others, presidents — a valiant corps; But teachers serve behind the splendid scene. And names like Waugh and Torrey mean no more Than that of last year ' s shapely campus queen. And so he longs for landmarks of the past. The man-made landmarks that so seldom last. He talks with friendly students in the Hatch, But in the give-and-take he seems to catch. Like the dull gnawing of an aging bone, A dim premonitory undertone: Buildings? The Drill Hall! Well, as like as not They ' re better scrapped. They never were so hot. To-day ' s the thing. Times aren ' t the way they were. We have to move. You get the point, kind Sir? The old grad gets the point. At least he tries. These boys so right! with sunrise in their eyes. He looks across the pond at Morrill Hall (The Senator ' s remembered after all). He notes the rhododendron banks that lie Where Metawampe scans the northern sky. He sees the students trooping to and fro With step elastic, faces all aglow. From all directions, too, he thinks he hears The clatter of construction engineers. Then, suddenly, the old grad seems to see The radiant landmarks of the Yet-to-be. — Frank Prentice Rand FRANK PRENTICE RAND Professor of English, Eineritus 17
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