The Gavelyte, May 1908

CEDARVILLE COLLEGE. 75 i' Mrs. W.'s beautiful flower garden with all kinds of shrubs and plants. To the right of the home is the summer house where W. spent leisure minutes admiring and drinking in the beauty of that beautiful and placid river. earby is the Deer Park and the first burying place of the President. Aero s the drivP.way and in a pretty ravine is the tomb. It is a very plain ~truc:ture of hrick with iron grating forming an arch in front, above which i:-. a marble slab inscribed ''Within this inclosure rest the remains of Gen. <;eorge Washington." In the front part are two winged figures, one bear– ing the name of Washington, the other of his wife. Withir. the vault rest 40 members of the Washington, Custis and related families, to four of them monuments are erected. The key of this vault was cast into the Potomac. ln all, it is a beautiful and historic place. Visit it when the opportuni– ty presents itself. Elements of True Friendship. MARY L. COOPER, '11. Pure and elt-vated friendships are, perhaps the most exalted and en– nobling influence of life. To have a friend, and be one, that of itself will suulimate irnd beautify any soul. Our friends are a gift of God, or they are nothing worth the having or the losing. They are the sweetness of life, the delicious kernel of the nut "whereof all nature and all tho't is but the husk and the shell". Too few of us look at friendship with any sense of responsibility. Friendship is love with the selfish elen.ent eliminated. In other words, friendship consists in being a friend, not only in having a friend Since we are to be friends it is well for us to notice some of the t>lements - of true friendship. To be a friend, one must have individuality. Emerson says, "Whoso cannot repel, neither can he attract; the two powers are but one pulsation of the soul." Friendship requires that rare mean between likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the pre~ence of pown and of consent in the other." As a friend, do not cease an insr,ant to he yourself. · "Friendship should be an alliance of two large formidaul:-" natures, mutually hPheld, mutually reared, before yet they recognize the deep identity which ht•nPath thes • di:-1parities unites them.'' .\ n11thn i,,)PmPnt is magnanimit.y. Faithful friend hip sees and appre-