Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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wk: l , , 1 .CN il ' ' . x -JS A -i,r-.-,,c- -,.-. J.- ...,--. l -E:Q:.'l'f?fFi,T i 5 ' , N presenting to an anxiously defensive pub- ' I lic the Ninety-nine volume of LIBER BRU- , . NENSIS, we have struggled against heavy i ,Wg odds. For years, as is well known, the ,J preparation of the book has been largely 'D if under the advice and espionage of the l ,p ' A powers that are, with the result that some- ii, i times the entire volume has been given to the world and sometimes only a part, while board after board of editors has increased the spring term pro- fits of the Refectory by losing appetite as the members felt their heads resting too loosely on anxious shoulders. But that is all in the past, soon to be forgotten, for with this year's LIBIQR begins, we trust, a new era. ' After the beginning of the new year we waited anxiously fora summons from Authority. We expected to have boundaries pre- scribed for us, and a dead line laid out over which we must not step. But the summons came not. VVe met Authority on the campus and did not get behind a tree, yet we still remained undisturbed. Finally, it dawned upon us that we were to be unmolested and un- assisted, that the press censorship had vanished with military drill and other relics of the Middle Ages, and that one LINER board was free to work alone. 9

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Hssociate Gditors Liber Brunenais ,1.i..l... JOSEPH STEARNS COLE, CHARLES WESLICY CLARK, JAMES WARREN, RALPH STANDISH BRVDEN, WILLIAM DUNLAP FORBES, WAI.1'ER ALEXANDER BRIGGS, JAMES BOISE BUSH, CLIFFORD SPENCE ANDERSON, WAL1'ER HOWARD Ml'1'CHEl,I., CHARLES KIRTLAND STI LLM AN, LYMAN ALPHICUS RANDALL, IVIONCRIICFFE CAMERON, DANIEL OSCAR XVlCBS'1'l-IR, 8 AAC!! A112 'YT B911 AKE Zi' GAX AT XID KIIAG ATR ATA KE

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So we took off our coats and went at it. We consumed mid- night gas and charged it to the business manager. Genius by the cartload came to our assistance. In response to our appeal for con- tributions the LIBER box bulged with literary hash. Some of those who wrote did well 5 the others, we have no doubt, meant well. To them all we would say, thanks. And so, despite the graver and grayer heads of whose assistance we have been deprived, our copy managed to reach the printer, and the result can speak for itself. If good, it is because the faculty have not assisted us. If bad, the reason is, of course, that we have. had no assistance from the faculty. Some new features will, we fancy, be found, and we have en- deavored to preserve the best of the old ones. The literary depart- ment has been retained, not because we desire to displace the Brznzorzzluz or the Ifcmla' as purveyors of fiction, but with the idea of presenting, in readable form, interesting phases of student life as it is at Brown. The time-honored custom of a senior record list has been dropped by vote of the class, after a full and free discussion in which not a single voice was raised in argument, pro or con. It is to be hoped that this action will not serve as precedent and that a valuable feature of the book, easily purged of the abuses on which objections to it were based, will be re-established in the near future. In the matter of grinds, we have tried to make this LIBER interest- ing to as many people as possible. If you are among the slain, grin and bear it. If you are not mentioned, grin and bear it, knowing it is because nobody ever heard of you. So, with a firm trust in Providence and the rest of the country, we once more dare the fates and the critics, repeating: The LIBICR is always glad to publish communications, but does not hold itself responsible for sentiments expressed therein. 10