Title

Pages from March 1912 Howard Payne Exponent

Subject

Classic Hall, Howard Payne College

Description

Page 14- Description of a recital held on Feb. 27th by Mme.Frieda Langendorff of the Metropolitan Opera Company

Source

Central Methodist University Archives

Date

19120301

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution License

Format

PDF

Language

English

Text

14 The Howard-Payne Exponent
To a Water Lily ...................... Mac Dowell
Miss Maupin.
a. Aufschwung .......................... Schumann
b. Air de ballet ...................... Chaminade
Miss Sevier.
End of the Task ................... Bruno Lessing
Miss Hogan.
Concerto ............................ Mendelssohn
Capriccio Brilliant.
Miss Kelley.

On Friday evening, February the 16th, the girls of
Central College entertained in honor of the Missouri
Weslyan and Howard-Payne basket ball teams in the
society halls in Central. They showed themselves proficient
in the art of entertaining and the evening was a
very delightful one. In spite of the fact that the two
preceding games afforded such unhappy results, everyone
was in high spirits and the time seemed excedingly short.
Punch was served.

February the 7th was the anniversary of the birth
of Charles Dickens. In view of this fact our chapel exercises
of that week were devoted to this famous novelist.
Each morning a paper on some phase of Dickens'
life or works was read by one of the girls and the oratory
pupils gave readings from some of his most noted works.
Dickens is one of the greatest of English authors and
the time we devoted to him was very instructive and
enjoyable.

What is life? Is it something so disagreeable, then,
that we rush through it as if driven by a whirlwind?
Each day finds us hurrying faster and faster through
youth and middle age, then as we come to old age, pausing
for a moment perhaps, before leaving it forever.
Why not stop once in awhile in the midst of life and


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enjoy it, especially in this age when we have so many
real pleasures and blessings. Each age is better than the
preceding one, yet each age finds us in a bigger hurry to
get through with it. We have so many advantages now
over the people of other days. We are endowed with so
much beautiful poetry and elevating truths which we
have received as an heritage from our forefathers. what
a sad thing it must have been to have lived in those times
when the people had no sure belief in immortality. Life
must then have been dreary indeed, but we have had
that idea worked out for us. Man is never satisfied with
his lot, but is always searching for some higher, nobler
truths. So we have left to us such gems as the following
by an obscure poet, but nevertheless a beautiful thought:
"Life! I know not what thou art,
But know that thou and I must part;
And when, or how, or where we met
I own to me's a secret yet.
"Life! we've been long together,
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
'Tis hard to part when friends are dear,
Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear;
Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose thine own time;
Say not good-night, but in some brighter clime
Bid me good moring."

EXCHANGE
Among some of the good college papers we have received
are the Drury Mirror Normal Student, William
Jewell Student and the Central Wesleyan Star. There
are many commendable things found in the various papers
and are worthy of mention. We believe however that
the best way to improve our college papers since we are
more or less judged by our publications is to have the
best possible material. We are compelled to have some