Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Sc: Just a Word or so Before Starting {if you don ' t mind) JE hope that you will like our Drift, gentle reader. Goodness knows we 1 have tried hard enough to make it a nice book. If you don ' t like it, — — ' ' you know where you can go. For division pages, we have used the portraits of four men who made great contributions to the world of culture. Opposite these portraits, which are really very lovely, we have placed essays, in which we have tried, in our own humble way, to show how these men, through their life works, expressed and upheld certain ideals that we should like to see become (or remain, if you wish) the ideals of Butler university. Nobody will read these essays, but we enjoyed writing them. Most year- books are merely collections of more or less interesting photographs, catalogic articles, and trite and perfunctory paeans of praise, interspersed with colorful, but obviously amateur and painfully obscure, art. You know the statements that are customarily found in annuals, don ' t you? The labors and sacrifices of these noble people of the past have created our Alma Mater of the present and have assured our beloved school a glorious future. The Mu Delta Sigma fraternity has for its purpose the strengthening of the bonds of fellowship be- tween organized and unorganized men. The aim of the Scarlet Blade, women ' s honorary organization, is to serve dear old Merriwell academy. This year ' s football team, though it scored only two touchdowns to its opponents ninety-six, never quit fighting. Etc, etc, etc, etc, etc We wanted our book to be a little different, a little distinctive. The essays are supposed to express some thought — thought that, naive and fallacious though it may be, is sincere. And now, having perused this delightful forward, turn to where your picture is in the book and gaze at yourself as long as you want to. You know as well as we do that that ' s the only reason you bought a Drift, anyway. Lovingly yours, THE STAFF G

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Butler ' s Woodland Campus Moving to Fairview was termed an idle and pre- posterous dream. Why not erect new buildings in Irvington? the objectors asked.