. The Rotunda . we lieIn Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders flields. In the spring a young mans fancylightly turns to golf, tennis, track,baseball and incidentally, love. Other soldiers see only heroism. Hereis a stanza expressing a disgustfor war and for the attempt to makeit seem glorious:If in some smothering dreams, you too cauld paceBehind the wagon that flung him watch, the while eye writing in his hanging
. The Rotunda . we lieIn Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders flields. In the spring a young mans fancylightly turns to golf, tennis, track,baseball and incidentally, love. Other soldiers see only heroism. Hereis a stanza expressing a disgustfor war and for the attempt to makeit seem glorious:If in some smothering dreams, you too cauld paceBehind the wagon that flung him watch, the while eye writing in his hanging face, like a devils sick of you could hear at every jolt, the bloodCome gargling from the froth-cor- mpted lungsBitter as the cudOf vile, incurable sores or Innocent tongues,—My friend, you would not tell with surch high zestTo children ardent for some desper-ate old Lie: Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori. —fromi Wilfwred Owens DiUce etDecorum ELst. II THE ROTUNDA. WEDNESDAY. MAY 24. 1933. AMONG OUR CAPS AND GOWNS Ruth Roberts spent the week-endat her home in Madisonville. The following were in Richmondover the week-end: Mary Kelley, Polly Brock. MaryTaylor, Gladys Taylor, HenriettaSalsbury, Lucille Tiller, MargaretYoung, Dorothy Leonard, MarthaSanders, Katheryn Waters, FrancesDorin, Elizabeth Field, Elizabeth |Hendrick, Margaret Woodard, SueHume, and Edwina Richards. Over the past week-end LeliaLovelace was in Halifax. Pour students went to Crewe: LoisBradshaw, Mary Virginia Johnson,Frances Burks, and Charlotte Young. Elizabeth Fitzgerald and LouiseBriggs went to Blackstone. During the week-end the followingvisted in Lynchburg: Betsy Wilkin-son, Hilda Harvey, Nancy Burgwyn,Judith Hardy, Betsy Ross, and Dor-othy Wingfleld. Leah Shaw spent the 20th and 21stin Roanoke. Among those who went to the Uni-versity of Virginia the past week-endare: Virginia Lanier, Helen West-moreland, Jennie Wheeler, CarrieDeShazo. and Anne Pitchard. Estelle Jon
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