Cedarville College Memorabilia

FAREWELL TO THE JUNIORS OF '03. 1 ELLIE B. LE\\'1S. "A we know nothing, how can we explain; Add naught to nothing, how much i the gain? \\' e came from nothing, and to it return; Take naught from nothing, wlnt then will rem ·tin ?" ome farewells are delightful thing ; in fact, I would not £or anything mi my chance to ay "goodby "to some acquaint,rnces. To feel that they are gone, and gone fore,·er too, bring exultant joy, and unutterable relief. Such feeling come after stormy interviews with those unpleasant affairs book– agent ; or electric road promoter , with their fanciful dream ; or people, who wish you to write articles for them, apparently thinking you have only to dip your pen in your heart' blood, and produce something worth while. Yet I cannot be angry with the junior , if I would, and I hould not, if I could; for never have I seen their equal, in good humor, industry(? )and evident de ire to please. So it is with a heart almost dreary, and a yearning pain which makes me "weary" that I begin to ay "farewell." I remember the dear Junior years ago, when some of them were Prep ; when . ome of them were mere children in the High School; before they had become digni– fied enough, and wi e enough, and aged enough, and monexed enough to attend coll ge. For you know, one must µossess dignity, and one mu t be wi e; one mu t be groaning under the burden of many years, and one must have money to pend at college, e pecially when so many books have to be bought in the literature course. But I am progressing too rapidly \\'h n the Junior were Freshmen, l wa not at college then, but I am ure of it, they wer very "green." People ~imply cannot avoid a verdant appearance at that early tage. · They were JU t bubbling over v,·ith college pirit and enthusiasm. They realized their own importance and hrillian y as no one lse did or could. Strange to relate, but true, for truth i tranger tl~an fiction, they tried to impre other with, well littl su e . Let u~ us draw the veil on this painful period, we h,n-c all been there, and think of them as they are now. You ee they till have a little more to learn, but not much. 111 their Sophonwr year they became more or le, di illu ioned. For the fir t time they began to doubt their own wi dom, inlv the su. picion \\,L nut, er firmly plant d They found that they did not o cupy a prominent a po ition in the tl1 · world as they had. upr-o ed. Life wa not all fun, after all, therefore not o ·n– J()yablc:. Thi. ye.tr th liking for "night" work incre,t ed, and lo. of -leep became ,1 lial,it. Frum a lend r thr ,td it had grown into an iron chain. But they had a decidedly "jolly" time, ,tnd remained out until tlic we e 51n 1' hour, much to mama' . 01 the landlady's cu11. ternatio11.