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A Delightfully Composed Article
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25 Years of Alpha O Life

more tolerance of the present, and we simply cannot achieve a serious
outlook on the future.

I should be able, in point of time at least, to talk of how times have
changed, for in June I shall go back to college to help celebrate the
twenty-fifth reunion of the "glorious class of 1905." I shall go back and
be target for innumerable jokes, T shall hear old nicknames and see old
faces, and perhaps they won't look so very old for time will deal kindly,
I'm sure, with 1905 at this wonderful reunion. Wrinkles will smooth,
and eyes will brighten, and voices won't break, except for tears, when
we sing our songs, to those tunes you poke fun at, on radio programs of
the "gay nineties."

I seem to be wandering from what I ' m to ]
do, and I fancy it will be wise to stop think-
ing of that reunion. I have been asked to dis-
cuss "then and now." Except that life is set
a bit too fast for the greatest enjoyment, I
think "nows" have the advantage of "thens"
in every way. But I don't believe you make
the most of that advantage, or get as much
out of all your fine freedom as we did out of
our poor little efforts. Everything is in your
favor; very little in ours. But as I watch the
young folks today, I miss the spontaneous

tAlice Thomson in 1905—

Frilled
and brown
haired, our Alice
Thomson faced the
world in 1905.