Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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WILLIAM EDWARD SIMOND DEAN TWENTY

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1929 GALE } Athout tbs Cra. A college annual is both a record and an extravaganza. It is a contemporary spotlight and a permanent beacon. Here are the classes and the organizations, the men and the women, the insti- tuitions and some of the ideas, that go to make up the life of the college in this year of grace. Here are also the gibes and the jeers that help to keep both men and institutions from taking themselves too seriously. For college herces and college ideals have need to walk warily in the presence of the editorial board of the Gate. The man or the organization who can face the truthful eye of the camera and the more withering fire of ridicule and come through smiling has little to fear from other attack. Here is a contemporary chronicle untouched with and uncloud- ed by mystery. If any doubt it, let them wait twenty years and then turn back to this Gate of 1928. Seize upon the portraits. “Was I really as young—or as crude—or as bumptious—or per- haps as good looking as that?” Yes—, to all those questions— probably all four at once. Read the jokes, and find the same truth, for it is a characteristic of humor, even college burlesque, to carry a fair measure of accurate description even in the exaggeration of ridicule. And there will be no sting in the memory. For we are all in it—all of us are sufferers in our turn in this Puckish chronicle; Perhaps it is so that history should be written. ; La A ea Oe re NINETEEN

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