Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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FOREWORD vQUIPS £ y ti IT is the single desire of the editors of this volume that it shall in a tangible form give endless life to those cherished and multiple me- mories which could not but emanate from the halcyon days of the undergraduate, a period all too fleeting yet endur- ing unto the end. Davidson College was founded in 1837, a portion of the land being given by William Lee Davidson, II. The name was chosen as a tribute to his father. General William Lee Davidson, to one who had gained immortality in the minds of men by serving and dying without thought of self in that cause greatest in the chronicles of the American people, the Revolt of the Colonies against the yoke of Britain. The illustrations around which the book is built, forming the body of its in- tended theme, portray General Davidson at the greater crises of his career. An explanation may be found on the reverse side of each. On the opposite page General Davidson is shown immediately before the Battle of Cowan ' s Ford in which he gave his life.

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DEDICATION TN token of our gratitude to one who has during nearly half a century as student, as alumnus, and as friend ever given abun- dantly an immeasurable bounty of encour- agement, counsel, and support to this his Alma Mater, to one who as a kinsman car- ries on into perpetuity the noble tradition of General William Lee Davidson, we, the Class of 1932, dedicate this, the 1932 Quips and Cranks to Edward Lee Baxter Davidson V