Alpha Xi Delta, Volumes 1-2

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G. Banta, 1904 - Greek letter societies

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Page 34 - There is no Death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian. Whose portal we call Death.
Page 34 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted...
Page 92 - OUR fathers' God! from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand, We meet to-day, united, free, And loyal to our land and Thee, To thank Thee for the era done, And trust Thee for the opening one.
Page 92 - The austere virtues strong to save. The honor proof to place or gold. The manhood never bought nor sold! Oh make Thou us, through centuries long, In peace secure, in justice strong; Around our gift of freedom draw The safeguards of Thy righteous law: And, cast in some diviner mould. Let the new cycle shame the old ! JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
Page 26 - I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee...
Page 123 - The Baltimore Association for the Promotion of the University Education of Women offers a fellowship of five hundred dollars for the year 1914-1915 available for study at an American or European University.
Page 110 - Matriculation shall be defined as the day of enrollment as a student in the university or college.
Page 13 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range ; Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.
Page 14 - Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man...
Page 156 - Do not look for wrong and evil, — You will find them if you do; As you measure for your neighbor, He will measure back to you.

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