. Epitome: Yearbook 1896. reen ;^. Adown the terrace scampering is seen A tricksy squirrel with his willowy tailSpread to the passing breeze like mimic rustling waves the ivy spreads and fallsAnd whispers softly to old Packers walls. Out through the mighty chestnuts which stand worthy guardians of the hallowed ground,Is glimpsed the purling rivers shining face,Which, mirror-like, revealeth now no traceOf all the joy of Nature and her careThat through long centuries has been shadowed the river, limning bold to mountains lie, steeped in celestial
. Epitome: Yearbook 1896. reen ;^. Adown the terrace scampering is seen A tricksy squirrel with his willowy tailSpread to the passing breeze like mimic rustling waves the ivy spreads and fallsAnd whispers softly to old Packers walls. Out through the mighty chestnuts which stand worthy guardians of the hallowed ground,Is glimpsed the purling rivers shining face,Which, mirror-like, revealeth now no traceOf all the joy of Nature and her careThat through long centuries has been shadowed the river, limning bold to mountains lie, steeped in celestial barriers to an unknown world thev stand,And oer them fleecy clouds, by faint airs deep fantastic shadows that like strangest picture-daubs they show. But now the sun in crimson glory sets;Across the sky great gold and purple fretsAll blend together; and now dies awayThe valleys busy hum that marks the sight the mountains and the river fadeAnd evening bathes the Campus in the 247 ^i ^^olke^ jaoi /JpE WAS only a Freshman, but he wouldnt have had you know it for any-iJKl thing. He had come from a near-by state, but was perfectly innocent of^^ anything pertaining to Bethlehem or its vicinity. Having no friends oracquaintances in college, he was somewhat timid at first about making advances,and lived in solitude in a little third-floor room on Vine street, spending whatlittle leisure time he had in the L,ibrary. Time wore on very agreeably in this man-ner for abovit a month, when one pleasant afternoon it occurred to him that hiswas a somewhat monotonous existence and that a spice of variety would be verywelcome. In this humor he left his room and strolled aimlessly down to Fourthstreet, where his reverie was broken by an approaching electric car. The ideasuggested was a good one: Why not take a ride over to Allentown? He hadnever seen the place, nor heard much about it—being a Freshman—and it offeredall the delights of an unexplo
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