Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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CLASS POEM. LOLD PICTURES IN VALPARAISO. RAY ROSENBLATT. Oh, kindly Muse, Pray don,t refuse To guide my faltering meter, But fit these feet Some day to meet The approval of St. Peter. Should that good saint Not hear my plaint, And judge this rhyme imprudent, I still shall pray My humble lay May please each Classic student. Then hear thou mee Calliope: Receive my invocationy Make clear the wow tThough thoughfs preferredx In true and right relation. When years have fled And marked each head With Old Timets Whitening flnger, On Memoryn wall Of our classmates all Full many a scene will linger. The softened haze Of olden days Will beautify the pictures, When Memory leads, For 10! she needs No painterts brush and mixtures. OF Valpo town, Of Kinsey, Brown, And more at Learningls portals, Who hand draughts out From Wisdomts spout T0 knowledge-thirsty mortals. That building Old With its crust of mold As harsh as any cough is, Its decrepit air, 'ts tread-worn stair, And its thronging, ancient office. WIrile just Without, A11 strewn about, Lie trunks and bags and caseme The endless stream Of those who deem TLis Valpo best of places. Harkpethe dinner bell ! A11 flyeoh welle For they are hungryivery; And the breakfast rush For milk and mush, With remarks incendiary. And those Who would Be thought so good They went to Chapel-service; A speech, a prayer, Announcements there, tPerchance it made you nervousJ And as they pass To change their classe A bright-hued long procession! Then maid with man Might walk a spana A brief but dear digression. Still doth t1 at lake Sweet pictures make, And rest for those who labor, Where one may see The youth so free A, himself doth love his neighbor. All these and more Make up the store Of fancyys Vivid limnings; But one most dear in a class-room here Called tt six, had its beginnings. Twas here we sat in Greek and Latin, Learned worth of Wisdonfs ways 0- Ver those less Wise, In kindly guise, From the Sage of Valparaiso. yTwas here wetd go And strive to know Fair Truth in staid appare1,e In Logic Wan, 01' P01. Econ. MNOW take that apple-barrel? Such imaged views Shall live, Oh Muse, And when we,ve gone far hencetll Fill each heart With works of art Clear sketched by Memorye pencil. N0 gilded frame Their charms Will claim,e Theytre set in depths thoracic, And prove ,tis fine In naughty-nine To be a learned Classic.

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22 Volens et. potens ELMER FUN KHOUSER Classic and Professional Vincz't, qm' se m'ncz't JAMES H. MORRIS Classic and Professional

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24 Vates oaucula pmnuntians CHARLES A. WELLER Classic Sit vita ut women, sempea aestas RILLA B. SUMMERS Classic and Profession a1