Jambalaya [Yearbook] 1907
\ L Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Lyrasis IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/jambalayayearboo12edit lSzf\t^ |v|c„^eF ! — Two things there are that can't be beat Under our skies of azure heat; Like twin stars to our eyes they shine Alma Mater, half divine; Newcomb, learned, lovely, true; H.vermore long life to you THB STORY OF THB YEAR. Prologue. HE great sovereign of the material uni- evil, I strive to uplift, to inspire, to raise to a level with this verse, Father Time, gazed out upon divine inheritance. I give them freely of knowledge and its the immensity of his dominion—the power, and plant the love of truth, honor, and universal realm of flaming suns, planets innum- brotherhood in their hearts. They call me Tulane, and I erable, of worlds made and in the mak- have given you, O august controller of destinies, in obedience ing, of all vast unfathomable depths to your inexorable law, another year of my life. I come with of space under the wide arch of heaven, a heart overflowing with thankfulness to bring you the record and all subject to his absolute power. of my children's strong endeavor—their failures as well as Far, far away, a glimmering spot in ethereal space, shone the their triumphs—and to offer at your shrine the final fruits of planet known to its own puny inhabitants as the World. the many gifts which both my sons and daughters owe solely As Father Time's glance rested upon this planet he be- to your beneficence.
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