Yale University - Banner / Pot Pourri Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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YALE BANNER AND POT POURRI = TO THE MEMORY OF YALE COLLEGE It was an earthly place, but strangely made Because it slept unruffled by the cold Immutable ironic serenade, The legal song of time and food and gold. It lay beneath oiu- common sky and yet It was another world, a place called Yale, A fancy land wherein there daily met The permanence of dust with us, the frail. We lived there once, and then across our days Strode death, a masquerader capped and gowned; And we, the boys whom nothing could amaze. Stepped downward into life and so were drowned. Quite gone — and there is only left behind A dream of misty elms to plague the mind. II Where was despair a swift and careless joke, And where was melancholy sweet and green? Where was remorse a thin and lovely smoke, And where was sin still arrogant and keen ? Where was unseemly chance a playful child, And indolence the aim of death and birth. And where was drunkenness still bright and wild, And where was everything the food of mirth? There in the college all these things were so — The throat of thirsty youth drank our despair, A gorgeous wine which made our senses glow So that derisive laughter echoed there. And even now with thin and clarion strains That laughter sweeps across our pompous brains. H. Phelps Putnam. Reprinted with permission from Trine, pulilislied liy Doulileday, Doran Co.

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CAMPUS VIEWS I. Hillhouse Avenue II. W. H. Harkness Recitation Hall III. Xortlieast Corner of Branford Court, Memorial Quadrangle IV. Library Street V. Entrance to the Medical School VI. Branford Court, JNIemorial Quadrangle VII. OldLibrary VIII. Memorial Tower Gatewa IX. Hewitt Quadrangle X. Cotton Mather Gateway XI. World War Memorial Colonnade XII. Wrexham Tower from Branford Court XIII. The Gold Coast XIV. Calliope Court XV. Southwest Comer, Branford Court, ]Memorial Quadrangle