Wells College - Cardinal Yearbook (Aurora, NY)

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heavy purple bank of clouds foretelling in glorious prophecy a dark morrow, or whether it throws a clear track of golden brightness across the lake, promising fair weather, each ramble in Clifton or Moonshine when they are fresh with the bright beauty of Spring, the southern slopes white with trilliums, and the Northern banks protecting shy hepaticas beneath their tall, dark pines, every walk on the bluff-across the bridge Where the strange odors of the sulphur spring fioat down, on and up the hill to the top where stands the queer, blue pine like a twisted sentinel watching the surrounding country from the highest out- look, and then to turn and look VVhere Aurora lies along the lake Its mile of beauty by the land caressed, Within its encircling arm, seeing across the long stretch of rippling water, looking from the far-away point reaching out into the lake, past the grey store- house and the houses clustering low beneath the church spire, and inally letting one's eyes rest on the tower, that tower that stands four-square to all the winds that blow,-all these leave deep im- pressions within us. So as the days of the third of the four short, happy years go by we realize, some of us faintly, others more clearly, the many lessons, outside those stated in the catalogue, that we have learned. At the end of this spring, H With a sigh for this sweet year, And a smile for this sweet year, We turn our faces toward the autumn, ready to enter as Seniors, less classmates and more Wells girls than ever -before. 58

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N J umor year our love for our Alma Mater has become that steadfast affectwn that cannot be destroyed 1n future yeals H WQZZSW has taken on a deeper meamng for us, we 1eal1ze mole fully that we are nearlng the end of our college coulse, and wlth th1s reahzatlon comes the feel1n0f, that grows str 011061 as the days go on toward our graduatmn, of how much all th1s college hfe IS to us and how, almost unconsclously, 1t has grown 1nto our hearts as underclassmen A clearer v1s1on has come to us of many thmgs We pcrce1ve more serlously and deeply the fullness of hfe, Wld6, sh1n1ng v1s open before us showmff us the prospect of 4poss1b1l1t1es and 4' opportumtles '7 both 1n the day 1n and day out routme or college work, and ln our llfe when we are H way out 1n the W1d8 W1d6 world Through the happy, careless months of Freshman and Sopho more yea1s our f116I1dShlpS have been developlng and llpfblllllg, d 1n our .Tumor year we 1eal1ze what a ffsweetener of l1fe true fr1endsh1p 1S The fickle, lnoonstant happy go lucky com radeshlp toward one another of our irst years has glven place to true frrendshlp 'fthe mysteuous cement of the soul,' wh1ch IS one of the truest best th1ngs our oolleofe hfe g1ves us College customs as the character1st1c feature of Wells have be come dear to the Jun1o1 heart, and lt seems natural for her to Ukeep them up, and rnstruct at least one gene1at1on of Fresh men to do the same The H smffs that must be held Saturday n1ghts,eluster1ng around the hall p1ano, calolllnv from llght to se11ous and back afram and the all lmportant one on Thanksfnv 1ng Day, when, joyous ln the thought of what has been and 1S to be, we crowd together for an hour ln the ff Balcony Room for an after dlnner 4'S1n0', ' where Splflt rathe1 than melody relofns all the var1ous gala days to be celebrated, the etlquette that must be observed 1n many matters, between classes all these are a palt of Wells, 1ts 1nd1v1dual1ty, that we have come to love and appreclate and as upper classmen wrsh to help perpetuate We have learned espec1ally to know and to apprec1ate that Sp111t of Beauty, f eternal and d1V1D6 Dawn eve and nlght the lrldescent seas Brlght moon enl1 htenlng sun and qulverlng stars are plctules whlch are put away 1D our memoues as art treasures, bronzes, vases and ce1am1cs are h1dden 1n Japanese store houses, to be brought out fresh and beaut1ful one by one 1n the years to come Each sunset, whether the sun melts U'lOW1D0' 1nto a 57 . 1 1 I a 0 . 1 I 1 1 u I ' v W . 0 Q , , n 1, . D 7 Q . . ... ,, tas g 4 , . , , '1 0 D U. . . 1. I , u n 1 ,, an ' ' o , ' ' - 7 ' 3 O I 1 ' Q 1 . 1 va ' . ' , ' o s u n D . 1 . u O 3: - no - 5 . . V , . .- ' ' 1 . ' ' . ' . , o I o 2 a 1 a u 7 . , 4 - I c . . ,, if f 1 1 4 1 , . , I u Q H 9 g' 7 5 9 ' I N . . ' D D

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