DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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Before any creative effort may grow, the makers must conceive of a definite theme and purpose in which the work may be cast. Without first clearly understand- ing the nature of this objective, the finished product is apt to lack both significance and consistency. lt is the distant landmark by which the direction of the work is gauged and the criterion by which material is selected and arranged. This theme or ideal for THE MIRAGE of 1932 we have found in Truth-not the truth of cyni- cism which smiles at life because it is too haughty to express its con- tempt, nor the pedagogical sort of truth which trembles to sit in judg- ment upon itself - but a broad truth, trying to see things squarely and recognizing that life is a com- bination of light and shadow, of the sublime and the ridiculous. Our effort shall be to produce a living i 1

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record, distorted by neither a smirking sophistry nor a cowardly deference to worn-out ideals. To enhance this theme we have selected an art motif set in a back- ground which is distinctively of DePauw-a young man and woman in the life and activities of this campus, pictured by plain, sharp woodcuts of black and white. With the prevalent feeling which connects THE MIRAGE with graft and inefficiency, the reader will probably smile at the more or less elevated language and sentiment of this prologue and point to phrases which seem particularly hypocrit- ical. But this is written in all sin- cerity: Our goal is to catch, both by pictures and words, the image of DePauw as it is, to give credit where credit is due, and to praise only that which seems worthy of praise. -The Editors.