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Show THE DIXIE OWL 5 THE COMING OF SPRING THE DIXIE OWL Published Monthly by Students of Dixie Normal College SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Students Free; Others 60 cents the Year EDITORIAL STAFF Annie Gardner .... Louie Woodbury . Bliss Ivins Walter Cannon Keith Seegmiller .. Will Pulsipher Katharine Miles ... Kate McQuarrie ... Editor-in-Chi- ef .. Assistane .... Assistant . MARCH 20, 1919. The blossom laden apple trees, The robin on the wing, Proclaim to everyone who sees. The coming of the spring. The perfumes wafted on the breeze. From flowered haunt and nook, Repeat the message to the bees, Then hasten to the brook. Editor And everywhere, from winters nap. Editor Living things awake, Business Manager Debating And drowsily, from Natures lap They view the woods and lake. Athletics Local and Society Oh, bright and shining, happy spring. With glorious, care-fre- e days, Philosophy Come hither, quickly, on the wing. And fill our hearts with praise. L. W. concentrate on the thing he is studying, and stick to it until he has masSPRING No doubt it will be hard at As Spring approaches, and the first tered it. warm days begin to appear, with first, and it will be ncessary to allow Spring has come with its wonders. fevAnd the skies are deep and clear. them comes a strange malady, called frequent intermissions when the is at its highest point. But in the er of Oh! which the winter was long, Fever, irrespective Spring end we will be victorious. If we will But the larks glad song, persons, attacks all students alike. do the best we possibly can up Tells us Spring is here! The chief symptoms seem to be leth- just to the end of then, when argy in the class room, and a desire we haveverytaken the school, last examination, Oh! wake from your drowsy slumbers to skiff everything and walk all over You birds and bees and flowers, we can the last throw our test, passed creation. A strange thing about lethFor the winter forlorn, worries to the four winds, for a few argy is that it sometimes disappears to Easter morn, Yields at the ringing of the bell, and especi- days at least, and give ourselves up And the glory of fresh Spring hours. to But until then, work, frivolity. The scientific ally the noon bell. work. work, The soft spring rains fall gently, teachers of the college are doing Releasing the frozen world, their utmost to discover the cause, woodland scene, Thru comes of Next month cure and issue the the last disease, prevention, a wave of green, Comes but as yet they have been unable, to of the Owl Let's make it a success. Springs banner is unfurled. find the microbe which causes the Students, remember that it is the of trouble. They have discovered only representative your school, and The sun, with new life flames upward that the disease seems to be practi- that if it is to be successful, you Is polished and burnished anew, What speaks And jewels bright, cally incurable until it has run its must do your share. course, which varies from several more for the personality of a school The gifts of night, Members of the D. days, in the lightest cases, to months than its paper? Oer emerald grasses wet with dew. in the most severe. The best method N. C. be loyal to your college boost In rainbow hues, the bursting buds, yet worked out for curing the dis- high for your school contribute to Fling wide their doors, unbarred, ease (there seems to be no preven- the Dixie Owl. The staff can do But the crown tative) is found in careful, concen- nothing without your support, but if Of the whole divine, springtime, trated study for at least a few hours you will help us, we will do our best of our Lord. Is the Easter to make the last Owl a worthy repreevery day, varied with a bit of exercise now and then, in the open air. sentative of the D. N. C. Earth, smiling, yields her rarest gifts Of lilies and dewey moss, disease Students, lets fight this Assumed qualities may catch the And at Easters call. with all the combined might of the D N. C. Student Body. Surely such a affections of some, but one must pos- We, one and all, strong opposing force could not be sess qualities really good to fix the Lay wreaths at the foot of the cross. without a very remarkable effect for heart. Bliss Ivins. Let's each and all do everygood. FORGET IT. Theres no balm in thing in our power to drive from our If there is a Hades it is a place school this disease, which is as life half so healing for body, brain, where we may look back upon the opas the flu, and much more or heart. FORGET IT. portunities we have lost. virulent, and on which masks seem to have no effect. We can stamp it When flatterers meet, the devil A grouch is a mortgage on one's out if everyone will try each day to goes to dinner. friendship. SPRING FEVER con-tageo- |