1915 Yearbook
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Title
1915 Yearbook
Description
In this book you'll find a picture
Dear to me—perhaps to you,
For it bears familiar faces,
Classmates, comrades, staunch and
true.
There is Kleffman, Bissen, Toynbee,
Beecher, Millett, and—alas!
One who's doomed to tell the future
Of the fifth-year Latin class.
As I ponder o'er their features,
Thinking of the future years,
When we'll work no more together
In the comradeship that cheers,
Fancy conjures up before me
Visions of the future time;
And the scenes that pass like shadows
Faithfully I tell in rhyme.
In a thriving town of Iowa
Known as Shelby County seat,
Kleffman, the photographer's
Sign hangs o'er the busiest street.
With a comrade's sharp-lens camera
Bill has made a brilliant start;
Now, with up-to-date appliance,
He is expert in the art.
Then, my vision still prophetic,
Brings another form in view,
Who is doomed by fickle fancy
To flourish in Harlan, too.
In that old moss-covered court house,
Striking culprit hearts with awe,
Reigns our classmate, Peter Bissen,
Grim defender of the law.
Hark! I hear a voice familiar,
Battling for the truth and right;
Can it be that mild Charles Toynbee
Rails with such indignant might ?
True it is, for he is worthy
Of a Bossuet's laurel crown;
As expounder of the Gospel
He has merited renown.
Then toward dear old Alma Mater
Turn I now in reverent thought,
There to find the college "freshies"
Are by Father Beecher taught.
Horace was to him a pleasure,
Cicero his keen delight;
Arnold he did far excel in,
Seldom failing to be right.
Then again my vision changes,
On the scene looms Harvard fair,
Where renowned Prof. Millet
Fills the Mathematics chair.
Subtle, keen, another Euclid,
Or a Napier, I opine,
Nowhere can be found his equal
In the realm of log and sine.
As to him who tells this story,
Both with truth and fiction fraught
Drawn from off the lips of Future
By the bribing words of Thought,
To foretell would scarce become him,
For the saying's true, I ween,
That no man can see his own self
As he is by others seen.
DAVID MURPHY, '17.
Dear to me—perhaps to you,
For it bears familiar faces,
Classmates, comrades, staunch and
true.
There is Kleffman, Bissen, Toynbee,
Beecher, Millett, and—alas!
One who's doomed to tell the future
Of the fifth-year Latin class.
As I ponder o'er their features,
Thinking of the future years,
When we'll work no more together
In the comradeship that cheers,
Fancy conjures up before me
Visions of the future time;
And the scenes that pass like shadows
Faithfully I tell in rhyme.
In a thriving town of Iowa
Known as Shelby County seat,
Kleffman, the photographer's
Sign hangs o'er the busiest street.
With a comrade's sharp-lens camera
Bill has made a brilliant start;
Now, with up-to-date appliance,
He is expert in the art.
Then, my vision still prophetic,
Brings another form in view,
Who is doomed by fickle fancy
To flourish in Harlan, too.
In that old moss-covered court house,
Striking culprit hearts with awe,
Reigns our classmate, Peter Bissen,
Grim defender of the law.
Hark! I hear a voice familiar,
Battling for the truth and right;
Can it be that mild Charles Toynbee
Rails with such indignant might ?
True it is, for he is worthy
Of a Bossuet's laurel crown;
As expounder of the Gospel
He has merited renown.
Then toward dear old Alma Mater
Turn I now in reverent thought,
There to find the college "freshies"
Are by Father Beecher taught.
Horace was to him a pleasure,
Cicero his keen delight;
Arnold he did far excel in,
Seldom failing to be right.
Then again my vision changes,
On the scene looms Harvard fair,
Where renowned Prof. Millet
Fills the Mathematics chair.
Subtle, keen, another Euclid,
Or a Napier, I opine,
Nowhere can be found his equal
In the realm of log and sine.
As to him who tells this story,
Both with truth and fiction fraught
Drawn from off the lips of Future
By the bribing words of Thought,
To foretell would scarce become him,
For the saying's true, I ween,
That no man can see his own self
As he is by others seen.
DAVID MURPHY, '17.
Date
1915
Rights
St. Ambrose University, 518 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA 52803
Identifier
http://cdm16810.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16810coll2/id/3597