University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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-': 35...:1 .......ai gsm J. . IO CORKS AND CURLS Abitmygg $aEmamm$ Farewell, arcades and ivy-Covered towers, A fond farewell to all these sacred walls! Farewell, sequestered nooks and cozy bowers; Farewell, dread learning-consecrated halls! This parting now appears eternal endingg A ghastly gloom that palls a mystic fanea A shattered bowl beyond all skill of mendinga A silver Chord forever snapped in twain. Farewell, vast tomes, piled pell-mell, helter-skelter, Within Whose Clasps lies buried human lore! Farewell, runes, riddles, proverbs, tangled welter Of all the Musesl weary stock and store. Are we our hands in hopeless anguish wringing? Do we still thy scholastic solace crave? Or are some still small voices softly singing A gleeful requiem oler antearly grave? Farewell, true souls, Who kept a faith unbroken In Close communion through these happy years! Behold GriefAs sweet but melancholy token In claspad hands and eyes bedimmed With tears. But Why should we like common mortals sadden High souls for noble destinies designed? Let this consoling thought our parting gladde'na Each heart beats in his fellow,s breast enshrined. R. VOL. XIX A A. S.

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E? -E 1906 CORKS AND CURLS 9 State, and to love Virginia without loving the University is to love life without E loving the heart from which its quick pulsations come. But he was privileged, ,. after training for practical war at the Virginia Military Institute, where he is graduated, to attend the University. His local attachment then began, not merely for the fascinating buildings with their tit setting of scenery, but to the spirit i and tone of the University, invisible but inviolable elements of its being. The EE great teachers of that day, particularly in the Medical Department, in which he E received his degree, so profoundly impressed him that to this day he holds their E memories as a perpetual treasure and cherishes their ideals of life as his own. ' Hardly had he finished his post-graduate studies in Philadelphia and founded his home when he sprang to the front to defend Virginia. He had not . wanted division, but when it came, he, like his illustrious kinsman, General Lee, E could not hesitate One moment to take his place. Here, too, he seemed to have E Virginia institutions in his keeping in part, and one learns to love with, a new , and sanctified zest that for which he has fought in an hour of trial. i After the waris close he educated himself in the special love of youth, and later, when he had mingled much with men in' the official positions he held, brought to the University his devotion to young men, the high ideals nurtured here and kept unsullied in the stress of active living, and a mans full training in courage and command. All of these powers and more he- consecrated to his Alma Mater. He lived among us with soldierly and chivalrous bearing, courtly manners, and with a calm and placid religious confidence. His spirit was that of the Master, and it makes little difference whether we call him a gentleman, for that involves knowledge of the iiflI'St true gentleman? or a Christian, for no true Christian can fail to be a gentleman, or for distinction a Christian gentle- man; under whatever descriptive name we present him to ourselves, this we pro- foundly feel, that as the University's life has ever been enriched by the men who here have sacrificed themselves, so now it is the richer and the riper because Col. Carter gave her his person and his powers. . CHARLES W. KENT.

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