Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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Vol. LIII, 1910 9 seemed to us worthy of preservation on account oF their humerous qualities. Pointless or malicious knocks have no place in any college publication. We Feel, however, that since the last thing we desire to express is disrespect For any man who has the honor to teach in Amherst College, no such interpretation can be put upon our work. We of the Board have done our best to produce an OLIO which may serve as a pleasant reminder of the past year to those who e xpe- rienced it, and as an introduction to Amherst liFe to those less Fortunate. We realize that in such a work there must be many imperfections and many omissions, but we trust that our critics, remembering the magni- tude of our task and the obstacles which beset us, will not treat us with too great severity. 5 - I ,6 V-.. :V ,. ,,: Y. ..- i: :,,....,: f --: ....,... .. .N .,-.-.. t,-Cifis ,., 1: f-1: ,.:.,- -.: N- r' . -,- ' ' :.:1,..:-f '. -- -...,-.1441 nu...-' -.. ---H...-' -4-

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8 The AMHERST OLIO iBrefate. E, the Editors of the. 1910 OLIO, here place before you the record of an active year of college life. Our task is one of the hardest and most thankless that can be found. EJQAQ' If we succeed in setting forth the events of the past twelve months in an entertaining and original way, we gain our slight meas- ure of praiseg if we fail, we bring upon our luckless heads abounding censure. Numerous obstacles faced us from the start. First, we found great difficulty in securing drawings from the undergraduates. We do not doubt the wisdom of obtaining drawings free of charge, if it is possible, but when no drawings are forthcoming, or their quality is poor, we cannot see how the policy of using only undergraduate work can be successful. We think that, although we have used no profes- sional work in this OLIO, coming volumes should have the work of the students supplemented by professional artists. Another obstacle lay in the size of the Board. The additional member added this year makes the already large Board unwieldy. Most of the work devolves upon the Editor-in-Chief and the Statistical Editor. We should recommend that succeeding Boards choose a small committee from among their number, consisting of men whose literary ability is known, to devote their attention exclusively to the Grinds and Class Histories, while the rest of the Board, under the Statistical Editor, compile the body of the book. This plan, however, is only one of many suggested for solving this difficult problem. With the 1909 Board, we heartily believe in retaining faculty grinds. We think that last year's OLIO can well be taken as a model in this respect. We have, therefore, inserted such faculty grinds as

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