Columbia University - Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Gln the 3 hiinrf- nf the Glnlumhian , f- fs x HE honor of your dedication is one which l highly ap- preciate and for which I beg you to accept my grateful fc- ' s ' ' a thanks. 3R 47 9, 3' Each year the appearance ot the Lo1.U311:r.xN is .await- ed with increased interest. lt reHects as nothing else 2 -fm 1.5, . . . ., t . z Z5'l'4Q'5? ' does or can do the many-sided student life ot Lolumbia. lt shows us at work and it shows us at play. It shows us in pursuit of our several vocations and it follows us into our chosen avocations. The iniformation conveyed on its pages is most impressive, and nowhere is it more fully appreciated than by European ob- servers .and students of American academic conditions. They learn from the CULUMIJIAN how we have managed, in a hundred ways and by means purely voluntary, to build up a great series of truly educational undertakings J and inhuences about the formal work of college and of university. To them a book like the COLUMl1l,'XN is a real revelation. Wfe have among us occasionally critics of our student life. In many cases these critics are really self-criticsg the lack with which they rind fault is chiefly in themselves. Student life is not something which can be picked up like a coin or a precious stone, but something which must be made, cre- ated. The only persons who can make it are the students themselves, and this splendid volume gives full testimony to the fact that they have cre- ated it. XVith every good wish and hearty greeting, l am, Sincerely yours. I aft iS?

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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