Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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, 'Kilim ' 4 , l K e ' --A -1 +fi'fs-t-- .-s. W ' . ,f - N'-' Pkfli :a.a7a3.'i iz ,t 1-fr' ff' . 'lbs .Wil ' :W V Q QQEINTRODUCTION. Some are born great, some Achieve greatness and some llave greatness thrust upon them. If this quotation refers to books, the editors of the Liber Brunensis of ,92 are sure into which class the present volume should go. It is unquestionably, one of those which have greatness thrust upon them. They have found that they were expected to produce a book of ruth a kind, of surh a quality and especially of .mfh a size. A prize was offered for literary and artistic contributions and, successful as it was in the work it brought out from a few, they extend their appreciative wishes to the Board of ,Q3 for better results in the future than have appeared in the past. Quite a curious coincidence happened the other night when all of the board of editors dreamed that there were thirty-seven contributors to the miscellaneous department and that there was so much humorous and really witty verse on 'hand that it was found abso- lutely necessary to abolish the grinds. To be sure all of the said board of editors awoke next morning in time for chapel, but these dreams may well serve as a sage suggestion and practical hint to all those easy-writing undergraduates, who would pre- fer to avoid the joking roughnesses of the grind department, that here is a very good, and patriotic way of accomplishing that end. Even the lone reformer will find it a very felicitous thing, for the editors will love him as a brother and his name will be sacred in their sight and inviolable in their hands. For this apt moral drawn from our compiling experience, we trust that the Board from ,93 will say thank you and

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Qediedtien. 'PHE LIBER BRUNENSIS of '92 is gratefully dedicated to all those Liber Editors, Brown clubs and organizations, that sent in their copy and subscrip- tions at an early date and so did not share in causing delay in the publishing of this book.

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8 we reply that they are very welcome. The board have, however, with deep regret seen during the present year a case of sad neglect. It was neglect of that most pre- cious of all things, opportunity. The four class-historians declined to perform their functions. You remember those lines that say- There is a tide in the affairs of men that taken at the Hood leads on to fortune, but, neglected, all one's after life is bound in shallows and in misery. Possibly that is not quoted correctly. Well, never mind. You know what we mean. We fear that this is an illustration of the case in hand. They had their opportunity, they had their Hood-tide given to them gratuitously, free, for nothing, and who knows how many Libers would have gone with it without extra charge? But no, Brown's undergraduate Prescotts and Bancrofts died in the shell, and so it remains the melancholy duty of the Liber Board to consign them to the shal- lows and misery above referred to. It occurs to us that an introduction to a Liber is necessarily superfiuous, as every student probably reads the introduction the very last thing, but still it may be our part to preface our volume with a wholesale lot of expressions of sympathy, condolence and congratulation to such students as may desire these various commodities, and it is cer- tainly our pleasure to thank those who have assisted us in making this book what it is. Whatever may be deemed good by the reader is due, in many instances, not a lit- tle to the contributors. We wish to extend especial thanks to our able designer, Mr. E. B. Bird of Dorchester, Massachusetts, for his labors in our behalf. It is but fair to add that the photographs from which the half-tones were taken, came from the Studio of L. M. jackson, our class photographer.