must now break asunder those ties which have become so dear to us. Citizens of State College : While here we have been intimately associated with you, until now our lives seem to run together. Your presence here is but one of the many ways in which you have shown your deep interest in our welfare during our entire stay among you. Whatever our work you have been ready, nay, even eager, to help us, and we have been touched by your unselfish kindness. With all the warmth of sincere hearts, we thank you. We must now leave you to take up our life work. Some of us may remain with you, others will be scattered to every quarter of this broad land. With sad ness at the' parting, yet with hopefulness for the future, wishing you ever continued happiness, hoping that our paths may now and then cross, so that as old friends we may meet again, we bid you all a kind farewell. Members of the Board of Trustees : In your care lies our Alma Mater, one of the objects dearest to our hearts. Your work in behalf of us as students of this col lege has been done quietly and almost without our knowledge, yet we have enjoyed the fruits of your labors and we are deeply grate ful to you. The future of our college is most promising. She is growing and developing in every branch. May you guard well those interests of hers which lie within your care, and make her life full of purpose, that her works may bring forth good fruit. We bid you farewell. Members of the Faculty : It is with the deepest feeling of regret and a sense of a great loss that we turn to take our leave of you. We, and we alone, know the place you have filled in our lives. Beneath your care we have been instructed in those things which are best suited to fit us for our mission in life. We have been brought into close fel lowship as teachers and pupils, and, indeed, in these latter days, into that closer fellowship to which knowledge introduces us all. From you, who have shown so deep an interest in our welfare and whom perhaps we have not always rightly appreciated, we now The College Man and Citizen.
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