Washington College - Pegasus Yearbook (Chestertown, MD)

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ERCHANCE the Eastern Shore is especially beloved by Him who makes the Spring. The green meadows, the fragrant, flowering road- sides, the lush, clover-scented pastures, the bright gardens and velvet lawns bespeak a land of Spring. The season of flowers be- gins modestly, with the exquisite fragrance of the trailing arbutus, and the radiance of a rare trilhum. Soon after, the buds begin to swell and to burst, until the woods come to the evanescent state of a vari-colored mist. Lilacs are sweet in long hedges about the manor houses, and in bushes before cabin doors. Dogwood is as bril- liant in the May sun as snow. Summer encourages thousands of flowering herbs and shrubs to catch and charm a random look. Briar roses and button-bushes provide display along a country roadside, where honeysuckle breathes a heavenly fragrance. Altheas and magnolias are ghost- like in boxwood gardens on hot, still summer nights, when sweet Southern romance comes. Fall makes the Eastern Shore a bright patchwork, with too many hues to tell. Always there is vitality, and, even as grey December comes, the woods and fiields and gardens are restless for the awakening.

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DEDICATION To the Eastern Shore of Maryland, whose fair, fertile, fields have nourished thousands in neighboring cities, as well as those directly dependent upon its soil; whose surrounding waters have long served as a means of subsistence and transportation; and on whose broad bosom Washington College was founded.

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William Smith Hall