Volume 12 , Issue 37

The Castle On The Hill & Northwestern

The old photo to the left appeared in The Ranger (1926) album as the "Gang on the Warpath." It was a pep demonstration at Northwestern with the entire student body getting ready to march to town enmasse. This was the first assembly of the group in the Fall of 1925 on the occasion of the marking of the three State roads and a National highway that intersected in front of the college.

I have been searching back through all the research that I have collected on the Castle on the Hill and northwestern, looking for the first homecoming at Northwestern. Could this enmasse march from the college down sixth street (College Avenue) be the beginnings of Northwestern's parade? I know I have that information somewhere around here, but not handy at the moment I need it. So I shall keep looking!

The Castle On The Hill burned to a shell of itself 1 March 1935. I love the following poem that I found in the 1926 The Ranger yearbook.

A Silent message thru the ages
Is delivered to the races passing by,
And the wisdom of the sages
Flashes futily from the sturdy eye,
Watching Life's laughter, song and tears
Thru the eager march of onward years;
With quiet, unperturbed, mobile face
Inspires us to live with equal grace.
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