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THE_. VIATORIAN. F~- C
VOL. XV.
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-JULY, 1898.
· COMMENCEIMENT DAY. After all these happy hours Spent together, we mnst p.art; We must l ~ave these haunt_s and bowers, Separa-t e, and rend each heart. For next· autumn, many faces-,Many fond, familfar onesWill be missing from their. places; Will have quit their boyish tones. -
SPER~.
In the busy world ot labor, Some will s-weat tor d_aily brAad; Each one striving with his neig-hbor, Giving none no-r seeking aid. Sop1e may gu.ard their nation's honor;. Some may walk in paths of crime; Some may serve beneath the ban n·e r Of the One who rules all time. On commencement day, together, We are thinking of the past; Wonderi,rig, asking each one, whether This gay meeting is our last. Vow; of friendship, now, are spokeri - (Welded by lo'ng years of love). Which, alas, too soon are broken. Like the drifting clouds above.
-Hands ~re clasped in silent sorrow,Boyhood's first, short glimpse of painBut these tears are gone tomorrow, Which today our hearts' blood drain. Fleeting memories pass before us, Of the pleasures o.f the past; And of clouds th at fleeted o'er us, Cl ouds of grief-which did not last. Visi-o ns of the sunny hour& Passed in roaming through the fields, G~J,thering the sweetest ·flowers That the mead of knowledge yields.
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In' that sweetly scented meadow, Sep~rating rose from thorn; Hunting Truth, obscured in shadow , Seeking Go_o d, from evil torn. Thoughts like these come up today, And make us sigh to leave these walls; We sadly see the parting ·way That leads us from these college halls. P. W. H., '99.
DANTE AS A PHILOSOPHER.
Som.e few of the world's geniuses are so broad and so profound, have _penetrated so deeply into the myster- _ ies of time and ete~nity and embodied in undying song the hopes and fears, the aspirations and heart-longings of the human race, that long centuries pass a~ay before their greatness is fully recognized. Volumes are written to explain the beauty and charm, the depth and grandeur of their immortal works, and yet their pages re main as fresh and invigorating, as some unexplored, luxuriant world. Such was · Dante, the great poet, the greatest philosopher, the greatest scholar, tbe greatest genius of modern times; the man who molded scholastic p-hilosophy into the grandest song the world . has yet heard sung; the _m ost gloriouE- production of the Catholicism . of the middle ages. Dante's transcendent merit as a poet