DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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I eiemeiemsewscmelcmesowtoemeemoomeiemeem departments were written up by major students in the respective departments, while the clubs and organizations received their notices from their respective members. In this manner the complex life at DePauw is crystalized in the Book. In such measure the '4Mirage,' belongs to the student body as a whole. . Further, we did not hope to makejthe book? flawless. Although it may sound like an attempted' vindication of its shortcomings, we even hoped that it would not be fault- less, for there is much about our-' life- hells that is imperfect, much that can be improved upon, and the Book must mark this. Again, we did not want the Book to cut away from the past. We did want it to be in a measure new, the best, but we wanted it to appear as a new product of the past, and best because this is the best era in DePauw,s career. This all suggests the true value of the book, it is not valuable in the many proximate, superficial ways which one is liable to suppose, but is valuable merely as a record. As its age - '- increases its value grows correspondingly, and in the years ,V come may it be to those, whose college life it holds, a ifdiintain of pe1'petual enjoyment. raged: v,sugr44gg 5-50111 x..Sgf, xx if Vwmw 114- Nf'

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,FOREWORD N To Hnd a fountain where they wailed Mirage N- N preparation of this book the Junior class has not entertained any unattainable ambitions, but have sought to accomplish two commonplace things: first, to meet the necessary pecuniary demands and make the book pay for itself, and secondly, half-visionary as it may seem, to make the 4tMirage the well-rounded and even beautiful expression of DePauw life. The financial policy has been more conservative this year than ever before. This class has carefully considered each phase of the project-but the story of money-getting is familiar and reads like a chapter in '4Frenzied Finance. It is enough to say that before the contracts were let most of the money was deposited at the bank to the credit of the class. However, during all the vexing problems incident Tenn son The Anczkzzl Smfe. J' 1 .-. to this phase of the work, the laborers were cheered by the prospect of the completed product. The book, the completed product, was to be the well- rounded expression of DePauw life. Three things mark our attempt to realize this ideal. Every eiort was made to reach every corner of the University, to give each side of the institution its proper proportioning. DePauw stood at the threshold of a new epoch, naturally the inauguration must have an important place in the book. The new pres- ident consented to contribute a brief article, and Bishop Hughes was so kind as to send a message to his former students. In this way the uMirage marks the transition between the two administrations. Likewise the students aided in making the book universal in its expression. The

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