Washington and Jefferson College - Pandora Yearbook (Washington, PA)

Page 22 text:

Qlasg of '90, ' 4 W. W. CQWEN, W. P. Mo0RHE.w. WALTER HAYS, W. B. R1TCH11a. WELCQME T. JONES, J. Q. RQBINSQN. E. 0. KQQSER, CHAS. H. SHADLE. F. S. MATTHEWS, M. WILSON STEXNIXRT T T T W. V. SUTTON. M. WILSON STEWART, Editor-in-Chicf. VVELCOME T. JONES. ScCrcl:1ry. . I3u5il7e55 Qommittee. E. 0. KQOSER, Chairman. 11. 5. 1NI.X'1x'1xlWlliXX'S. sw, ROBINSON, '1'reaSur0r.

Page 21 text:

IIIIIIllllllIlllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllll IlllllllllllIllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllll AvA-NAvAvAfvAvAvAvAlV'vAvAvAvAvAJNlNfNIAvAv'wfNl'vAvAvAwAl'vAvAJNl'-Av . To our Successors in Misery and Happiness, I V This Volume, With the privilege- of using it as a model for their ' own publications, is Respectfully Dedicated by the Editors. a 1 . vvvVv'vA AvAvlvAv-.-Avlvl-lxlxlkf-v-v4J'vAv-vAv-v-.-v-.rNl-v4vAlNrNrNlw-v--v-v-4NlNrNr'- IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIAIIIIllllIIIlllllllIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII AvAJYAvAvAvAYhAvAvAvAvA-A A A A A A 'ff A-Av'SlNAvAvAvA-AvAvA A A A A A A A A A A A y-594 , -7- , V ,Z .,.15,, ,,-,..,El 1, , l 3

Page 23 text:

Introduction. HILANTHRUPIC PROMETHEUS did service to man- kind by procuring for it a rod of fire. Yet ungrateful human- ity censured him as a thief. Men forget how their benefactor's heart bled for them when he saw them shivering from cold 3 they forget how he studied and schemed that he might procure a con- queror of bleak Winter, how his brain, Wearied from over-exertion, finally became diseased, they forget that he, even demented, raked his shattered brain for a plan whereby he could Warm shivering humanity, that he at last formed the rash resolve to take the penalty of stealing fire from the Gods, they forget his tiresome journey to Olympus, and What his cunning there ef- fected for them. They remember only that he sfole the fire. Then they roll their eyes in speechless approbation of the pun- ishment awe-inspiring jupiter inflicted upon Prometheus, their benefactor. , . Ah, young man, While you comfortably sit, guarded from the chilling Wind by Walls of bumezz' brick, protected from the cold by glowing embers, listening to the jiffapropelled train that is bring- ing to you a missive from a part of your soul -While thus en- joying yourself, form not figures in the smoke that- floats from your scented cigar, of a just deity, smiling over the prostrate form of liver-gnawed Prometheus, form rather an image of yourself standing, nostril-dilated, death-dealing Weapon in hand, over a bloody-billed, diseased, bald-headed eagle. As Prometheus, so have many laborers for mankind been misunderstood- and censured. Father Adam himself, to Whose disobedience We all owe our existence, has been hootedat for yielding to temptation. Cain committed murder, but hadihe not set this example to his successors, the- hangmen of our time may have had to steal for a living. In more modern 5