Texas A and M University - Aggieland Yearbook (College Station, TX)

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name is not a common one, and may need some explanation. It was chosen after much thought, considerable discussion, and violent altercation, as peculi¬ arly appropriate to the style of book which we expected to publish. Although it is of Italian origin, it has resided for so many centuries in England that it has become naturalized. Its meaning in Italian was primarily a culi¬ nary one ; it signified a dish compounded of many ingredi¬ ents, a “hash,” in fact. But like a down-trodden emigrant, who leaves the cramped environment and repressing influences of his native land, and in the liberty and under the new conditions of another country, rises to a higher and nobler walk of life, this word, transplanted to England, came to be used, not for a mere collection of different kinds of food, but as a title for volumes of choice collections of music and literature. So we read of “a scrap book in which the caricaturist Grose, deposited all his odds and ends, sketches and anecdotes; after his death his bookseller served up this poignant hash to the public as ‘Grose ' s Olio. And Dryden calls a certain play of Ben Jonson’s an Olio, because it is “ a mixture ol comedy and tragedy.” It is in somewhat this sense that we use it. For in this volume we have brought together prose and verse, photographs, sketches, caricatures, history, biography, and nonsense, and so, long may it live. The Ohio, a rehearsal of the important events of the year, a reminder of work accomplished, and a monu¬ ment to commemorate the comradeship and brotherly feeling of those bound together by a tie soon to be broken, and never again to be united.