Columbia University - Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Ein the ifinnril uf Eilitura nf 1514 Qlnlumhizm QODRQXY WILSON once said that So far as colleges 1 go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we l f , al i in the main tent do not know what is going on. Wfhat- - ' it ever may be said as to how closely this statement fits our is own conditions, the CKGILUMBIAN, as a sort of Wfhds Wfho, is eagerly awaited and welcomed by those of us in the main tent as the best single means of learning what is going on in the side-showsg and if the students themselves did not publish such a book, the College would have to do it, and would probably not do it half so well. Thirty-two years ago the President of Columbia University was Edi- tor-in-Chief of the College year-boolcg indeed, he was haled before the Faculty to explain certain aspects of his editorial policy. Sixteen years later the present Dean of the College had a somewhat similar experience. Many 'other alumni now in the service of the University have helped to edit CoLUMBl,xNs The present board may count, therefore, not only upon gratitude on the part of the officers for the information which the 1914 COLUMBIAN furnishes, but also upon appreciation of the thought and labor involved in gathering it together and in presenting it in so handsome a form. Very truly yours. Dean. -.-71

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Gln the Gilman nf 1914 , f- fs s rlrlli thought that keeps recurring to nie with the greatest insistence, as-I comply with your request for a brief let- ter for the CoLUMn1.xN, IS that the close and delighttul collaboration in the publication of the COLUMBIAN, which SQL has existed since the lunior Classes of the old Arts wMF?4?ftw .J - -, '- N . ' '- - eff ' and ixlines at Forty-ninth Street combined the COLUM- BI,-XD and the ilfnzez' some twenty years ago, will soon be brought to a close by our recent decision to place the School of Mines, En- gineering and Chemistry on a graduate basis. This close association of the two undergraduate classes, First of Arts and Mines, and more recently of the College and Science, has been of the greatest mutual benefit. l hope and trust that the bond between the two Schools will be continued and intensified in the years to coine, notwith- standing the fact that the relation must be of graduate and undergraduate departnients, by the large proportion of the students of the new graduate Schools of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry who will conie up from the College. Wlith good wishes to every nieniber of the Class, I am Faithfully yours, f .-Q-..