Westminster College - Argo Yearbook (New Wilmington, PA)

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Ten Years Before Entering the Ladies ' Hale.

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these her friends, to be read only by Him who seeth all things. To the names already given might be added many others worthy to be inscribed on her roll of honor ; but let us mention only one, that of our own Dr. Ferguson, who has been for twenty years President of the College, having held that position longer by far than any of his predecessors, and of whom we all sincerely wish that he be permitted to be yet with us long, the head of the college, the student ' s friend. Westminster ' s life, too, has been the life of her students, who have come year after year to take up their abode within her walls, and whose voices and footsteps have been heard daily in her halls and classrooms. Time would fail us to tell of all the happenings with which history repeats itself year after year in college life : of the social events, banquets, receptions, chapel during ; ' vacant periods, and other functions ; of athletic contests, from the great football game of the season to the foot-races of a summer ' s evening up and down Vine Street; of scrapes of all kinds, rough house, ' Hallowe ' en escapades, chicken roasts ; of oratorical and society con- tests ; of entertainments, recitals of divers sorts, Junior orations, lectures ; of class scraps ; of celebrations with their parades, processions, bonfires and speeches ; of the daily, endless round of lessons, in Latin and Greek, Mathematics, Physics, or Psychology ; and then, of Commencement, with its crowd of visitors, and its sweet girl graduates and important young orators so much in evidence. Westminster ' s alumni now number a thousand and a half, and are to be found in all quarters of the globe, — business men, lawyers, physicians, men of worth in public affairs, ministers, mis- sionaries. Her record for the past is one to be proud of ; her influence is widely felt in the world ; her prospects for the future are bright. Long may she live Our Alma Mater, glorious, grand and true. Harris J. Stewart. 2 2

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