Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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endeavored to select the best manuscript, and, if yours does not appear printed on these pages, kindly remember that it has only suffered the fate of many another. We have tried to represent all phases of college life. Your picture will be found further on. Our humorous writers, we trust, have not failed to make you see their points, neither have those composing in serious vein fallen below the dignity of their office. We desire to thank all our friends for the encouragement they have given us and for the readiness with which the) ' have responded to our calls for help. Most heartily do we appreciate the kindness of our professors, who, realizing the volume and importance of the work upon our hands, dealt so leniently with us. The faculty, ' tis true, failed to release us from our chapel orations, but we forgive them because they did it through mistaken kindness. We take pride in being the first editorial staff chosen to publish a Bethany Annual. It cannot be said of our Meteor that it falls short of its predecessors, since there are none; and if next year ' s Meteor should surpass this one, we shall still have the satisfaction of knowing that others built on the foundation we laid. Again invoking the favor of our readers, we commit The Meteor to your kind consider- ation, hoping that you may spend many happy hours perusing its pages. Yours, without a throe, a quail or a penny, The Editors.

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Ebitortal. IN UNDERTAKING to publish an Annual the class of ' 97 has broken virgin soil. The life of old Bethany — so replete with incidents and illustrations of interest — has never yet found expression through the College Annual. To inaugurate the Annual at Bethany is the honor of ' 97. It has been our aim to present in our first attempt a book of interest not only to students but one of value also to all interested in Bethany — one which shall truly represent our College and her life. With brain wearied from repeated requests for contributors ' copy, with fingers aching from correcting manuscript, in all modesty and under many misgivings, we raise the curtain, make our bow to the public and submit to you, dear reader, the Bethany Meteor, trusting that it may win your favor. We ask you to judge us not with the critic ' s eye, but accept our work at its best, remembering that whatever value our efforts ma} ' have, they are all given for love of old Bethany and for her honor. Through many weary days we have striven to reflect credit upon our class and to fulfill the task imposed upon us acceptably. In our zeal to make The Meteor a thing of beauty and a profit to the College, we have doubtless made mistakes and overlooked some matters of detail. From lack of space, there are those whose manuscripts have been rejected. We pray that they wreak not their vengeance on our luckless heads. For without partiality we have 4

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Bethany College JfleUs. Hi!-yi!-yi! Hi!-yi!-yi! Rah !-Hoo ! Beth-a-nee ! Chee-he! Chee-ha! Ha ! ha ! ha ! Betha-ny ! Betha-ny ! Rah ! rah ! rah ! Colors — White and Green.