William Smith College - Pine Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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Discovered the fountain of youth. They say that Woman ages fast, But that this is not true, We will maintain until the last And prove the same to you. Our Vera in her Freshman year, With Seniors always did appear. Her Sophomore 'year she did aspire Unto an escort one class higher. A Soph she took her Junior year Her friends all shed a bitter tear. But when a Frosh she this year chose All nineteen-sixteen said, That goes To prove, our Vera now, forsooth Has found indeed the Fount of Youth 116

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PUT FORTH A SHINING LIGHT ON THE RIDGE Now it came to pass in the latter days of 1916 Cat the time when Brownie reigned supreme upon the Ridge Board even over six other membersj that in those days as she sat in judgment over all buddingliterary genius, both great and small, calamity fell upon the whole Board. For eight days the Editor wept and tore her hair but on the ninth day she took heart and went unto her classmates, all wise beyond their day and generation, to take council. And when she was come before their presence she exclaimed: What is to become of the Ridge, for lo, even in this month we have not enough material to fill half the pages? Then with one accord answered the Seniors, Go unto Sarah and ask from her a sonnet which shall make all other poetry contemptible to the eye and shall make the Ridge famous throughout all gener- ations. This did the Editor, and pursued Sarah, day after day, until at last the sonnet was finished. And lo, when it was taken before the Board and even unto the oiiice of the dean it passed immedi- ately. The Editor wept for joy. Into the Ridge it went and all that read it were amazed and the glory of it spread from one end of the campus to the other. It delighted the hearts of the professors even unto the youngest member of the faculty and great was the fame of its author throughout the college. Then the Editor calmly sat back in her chair and yawned a sigh of relief. The days of her worry were over, for she had found in the class of 1916 one who could poem even as Shakespeare never poemed and straightway Sarah became a light to lighten the Ridge throughout our last semester. 115

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Prevented deterioration of 1916. Regina alone of all our class Refused in frolics her time to pass. Deterioration she always feared, And ran and hid when friends appeared To take her to the movie show, For movie morals were too low. 117