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Show ! WHAT COLLEGE MEANS TO YOU K . BY LEWIJTTE BEAUCIIAMP POLLOCK, (Teacher of English In Jiast Technical High School, Cleveland, Ohio.) When collego seems all over, when you have put aside your cap and gown, when the wonders of commencement week are past do not foarj For you, college has not come to an end. j Always, there will be memories. That's why you must keep a stunt book, several of them Jf necessary, land must mako of your mind a store house of happy memories. Then, when the years go by and you yearn for a change, you can unlock the door to these treasures, tako them out one at a time, and look at them lovingly. You will lauglr over many of them, little chuckles of gle at past foolishness. foolish-ness. Over others, perhaps, tears will come to your eyes.; tears for little incidents of human Intercourse that you thought you had forgotten. And then, when you can't stand it any longer, you will pad: your grip, take tho train and travel back to tho old campus, where you will "renew your youth liko the eagle's," roam the familiar loved place- nd cnjpy again tho od-tlmo comradeships. They will rest you In boy and spirit, these reunions, and will send you out Into the world with re-consecrated heart, that will keep you going until time for tho next reunion. So, llttlo high school girls, from the day you enter college, you must begin be-gin to store up In your mind and in your stunt book a myriad of gulden guld-en recollections. If you do, college days for you will go on and on to the very end of your life! |