Official handbook .. . tual longings. He was the student,the bookworm, the embryo savant, whose daily Ijusiness it wasto subordinate the bodily cravings to the mental requirements,and who would have blushed to have been detected engaging inthe frivolity of any sport or game, disdaining to allow anyemotion to mar the deep serenity of his countenance or dis-turb the even tenor of his way. His boast was the burning ofmidnight oil and his delight in sounding the depths of thePierian spring. As his budget of knowledge waxed, his budgetof vitality waned, and only too often, as the doors of the uni-v
Official handbook .. . tual longings. He was the student,the bookworm, the embryo savant, whose daily Ijusiness it wasto subordinate the bodily cravings to the mental requirements,and who would have blushed to have been detected engaging inthe frivolity of any sport or game, disdaining to allow anyemotion to mar the deep serenity of his countenance or dis-turb the even tenor of his way. His boast was the burning ofmidnight oil and his delight in sounding the depths of thePierian spring. As his budget of knowledge waxed, his budgetof vitality waned, and only too often, as the doors of the uni-versity closed behind him, the gates of eternity opened beforehim, and his diploma of the one became his letter of introduc-tion to the other. He was the pride of his class, the reveredmodel of his community and the boast of his professors. Theplaudits which greeted him on his commencement day fell uponsenses already dulled by lack of proper nourishment and exer-cise, but the idea of the time stamped him as the approved. 1. \\Mi ,11,- _?, ; ::. Martin- 4. Kyle: ,. : Jackson; ; s. Arnistrun;r: !>. Brown; U». Ildluics; 11, ; IJ, Chase; IM,Keelaii; 14. Kicbardsdn; in. Watkins. Scurluck, Photo. A GROUP OF YOlNC ATHLETES OUT FOR AN AFTERNOONS TRAININGON THE TRACK LAID BY THE I. S. A. A. ONHOWARD UNIVERSITY
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