Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1937 (2)

Editorials

)lie STERLING & WELCH C~.

THE YARDSTICK "Arent' you glad your exams are over?" "Senior! Wish I were you." But the senior, ah, yes, there is a senior. And what might she be trying to express, or suppress behind an always tightened smile? Is there onlv a non-emotional relaxation before the last moment? Is ·there forever the saucy challenging laugh, and a hurried, "J use-give-me-that-diploma," speech, and no more? Every year when a freshman looks at a senior and in a small voice offers congratulations, the four-years-ago freshman is hearing the same things said that she had said. But now she knows. Knows what? She knows that four years of herself are about to be placed on a rostrum to be graduated into a school that offers no diploma but reputation, re- spect, or disdain, and oblivion. There is a door swing- ing wider, opening for the senior who, in another hour, will be an alumna. What does it mean? Only this-the freshman comes and stays for one, two, three, four years. She sees the school, feels the spirit of the school, gives herself to that spirit, and takes away the spirit with her. For the spirit of the school is extensive: it lives in the hearts of those living; it lives in the halls once livened by those now dead; it will live echoing in the voices of those to come. The senior is happy that academic work is over for the present; that a course is finished; that a goal has been won. She knows a sorrow, not of leaving books, but of leaving the atmosphere which will never be the same. No longer of the academic and social life, yet she has the spirit of the school forever. Left behind are the strange minutes of queer, delight- ful fancies. A room recalls this, a bulletin board that, the bell something else:-incidents that were important, minutes that meant a throbbing lifetime, trifles that told a professor how little you knew. Hurried prayers to bolster up a faulty memory. Friends that were tried and true, friends that were tried. Tears and laughs; lasting sorrows and joys. Memories-memories. Now a senior; tomorrow a graduate; and after tomorrow .. . Exams are not the end, nor are they the beginning, only a yardstick, uneven cut, to approximate the growth of a mind, to say that tomorrow the freshman will be a sophomore, tomorrow the senior will be grad- uated. "Aren't you glad that exams are over? over for good?" Exams have only begun. Four years to make a senior are four years to fortify the character foundation. Look up, freshman! Look forward, senior! ,. A A MAE MILLER '38.

JUNIORS' FAREWELL Graduation! A time for retrospection and introspec- tion as well as for speculation. A time to look back over four years of school life ... a panorama of classes, week ends, dances, headaches and heartaches! All these pass in review with the aid of a few diary notes and reminiscing, and the thought arises, Of what value is it to me? What have I to take with me besides the date America was discovered, or perhaps the date Bob was discovered? So look into yourselves, seniors, and discover the in- trinsic values that school life has given you. These are the values that last. We who are left still to absorb those values, bid you farewell and wish you success!

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HELEN MARIE LAKE

Valedictory-"This, Our Day" (Continued from page 115)

Fortunately we have something to give in return-the promise that we will uphold thal name and never misuse that trust. Each time we look back into our past, we will find Saint Mary's a part of it and we will shape our lives accordingly. We need not say farewell; Saint Mary's will be ever with us.

The Sister of the Holy Cross (Continued from page 126)

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haps they will never be known away from it; nevertheless, they too have marched into the battlefield, have tasted blood, and walked over it, have comforted the sick and the par- entless, have laughed with the little, cried with the poor, have died with the dying, and hoped with the hopeful. They are sainted women living in a shadow, and dying in a shadow. They call it "The Holy Cross".

TO THE GRADUATE- Grasp memories, endlessly swinging and flowing, The gift, and the echo of God, the all-knowing!

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JUNE, 1938

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