TO THE STATELY SISTERHOOD SIX and forty of them, sisters, and a buxom bunch they are, Not a single one is bashful—each proclaims herself a star. Alike in this, they differ every other way but one, And that's a love for scrapping when their toes are trod upon. Three and ten, though passé maidens, won't be laid upon the shelf, And each of all the young ones battles bravely for herself; THEY WILL NEVER OWN A KING! Lynchburg. EDWIN A. HERNDON. ONWARD, COLUMBIA LOUD the oppressed of the nations are calling, Onward, Columbia, without hesitation, Lifting "Old Glory" aloft to the skies; Thou, O Columbia, art chosen of Heaven Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia. F. V. N. PAINTER. THE IMMORTAL WASHINGTON FATHER of His Country: "First in War, First in Peace, First in the Hearts of His Countrymen!" THE TYPICAL PATRIOT OF THE AGES. The great exemplar of human freedom, of faith in men and devotion to the rights of men-the pattern after which the civic virtues of heroes have been fashioned. A name which will live among the greatest and noblest of all the ages. President. Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. TO THE MAN WHOSE NATAL DAY AMERICANS CELEBRATE THE Twenty-second of February is a holiday that belongs exclusively to the American people. It memorizes the birth of one whose glorious deeds are transcendently above all others recorded in our national annals, and by so doing commemorates the incarnation of all the virtues and all the ideals that made our Nation possible. All that Washington did was bound up in our national destiny. The battles that he fought were fought for American Liberty, and the victories he won GAVE US OUR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE. His example of unselfish consecration, lofty patriotism and unfaltering faith in God made manifest as in an open book that those virtues were not more vital to our Nation's beginning than to its development and durability. The American people need to-day the example and teaching of Washington no less than those who fashioned our Nation needed his labors and guidance. Many Uludand |