1920 yearbook
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1920 yearbook
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Music
Music/—Oh! how faint, how iveak.
Language fades before thy spell!
Why should feeling ever speak,
When thou canst breathe her Soul so well?
Friendship's balmy zvords may feign,
Love's are evn more false than they;
Oh! 'tis only Music s strain
Can sweetly soothe, and not betray!
—Thos. Moore.
Love of the beautiful, the true and the good is an inclination inherent in all men;
it is one of the purest impulses that inspires the soul of man to deeds that live and that
do good while they live. This beauty, this truth and this goodness which the soul of
men craves is realized in the first-born of all the arts—Music.
Its incomparable beauty and unspeakable charms have touched the heart and influenced the soul of mankind in every age. Music has played a great role in the years
that have passed and she will continue to play it until the last surviving child of this
earth will no longer be able to enjoy the message that music has for each and everyone.
The relation between music and life is an intimate one. In the attempt of human
beings to escape the traffic of life and to reach a height where they may breathe the
fresh, clear air of beauty and truth, they invariably turn to music. It may not be the
music that comes from instruments or that is produced by the human voice, but it is
after the music of memory, stored in the mind from early days; it is often the music
of a conscience, testifying for those actions that have been the best; and again it may
be the music that nature holds for those that see her in her splendor and her beauty.
During the war music did its part, and a great part it was, to bring cheer to the
soldiers in their trenches and dugouts. Thousands of miles from home, in a land torn
by battle, the mightiest artists in all the world sang, urging their comrades on to
victory.
And so it is that music and life are intimately connected. Music brings us closer to
the things of God, things that never die—the Good, the Beautiful, the True.
Music/—Oh! how faint, how iveak.
Language fades before thy spell!
Why should feeling ever speak,
When thou canst breathe her Soul so well?
Friendship's balmy zvords may feign,
Love's are evn more false than they;
Oh! 'tis only Music s strain
Can sweetly soothe, and not betray!
—Thos. Moore.
Love of the beautiful, the true and the good is an inclination inherent in all men;
it is one of the purest impulses that inspires the soul of man to deeds that live and that
do good while they live. This beauty, this truth and this goodness which the soul of
men craves is realized in the first-born of all the arts—Music.
Its incomparable beauty and unspeakable charms have touched the heart and influenced the soul of mankind in every age. Music has played a great role in the years
that have passed and she will continue to play it until the last surviving child of this
earth will no longer be able to enjoy the message that music has for each and everyone.
The relation between music and life is an intimate one. In the attempt of human
beings to escape the traffic of life and to reach a height where they may breathe the
fresh, clear air of beauty and truth, they invariably turn to music. It may not be the
music that comes from instruments or that is produced by the human voice, but it is
after the music of memory, stored in the mind from early days; it is often the music
of a conscience, testifying for those actions that have been the best; and again it may
be the music that nature holds for those that see her in her splendor and her beauty.
During the war music did its part, and a great part it was, to bring cheer to the
soldiers in their trenches and dugouts. Thousands of miles from home, in a land torn
by battle, the mightiest artists in all the world sang, urging their comrades on to
victory.
And so it is that music and life are intimately connected. Music brings us closer to
the things of God, things that never die—the Good, the Beautiful, the True.
Date
1920
Identifier
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