DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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similar self-love and Worshipful devotion. And so we will admit that our labor has sprung from, and has been animated by, an emotion which those more modest would symbolize as loyalty to our Alma Mater. We have striven by means of our mediocre talents, to perpetuate the memory of the good to be found in the life of our beloved college,- never attempting to criticize the bad, if there really be such. The remembrances of the great minds whose ener- gies have been poured out upon the altar of intellectual life here at DePauw are far too fresh in our memories to permit the slightest animadversion upon the methods and results of their worle. To be sure, we have occasionally criticized in a friendly way nnerisms of our fellow-students, but merely because we realize that N the life which is unexamined is not worth living. And at times we have taleen the liberty to caricature certain phases of Depauw student-life-not because we find ourselves on e, or vested with any particular censorial rights, but rather because we feel that the primary good of the non-professional educational institution of today comes from the comingling and interchanging of ideas and ideals during undergraduate life. lf, therefore, in the pages which follow there be found severities or crudities, we asle only that it be remembered that our effort has been to minimize the importance of the lesser, or individual self, in order to emphasize the qualities which we deem so nd nobler self,- DePauw University. the ma a higher plan excellent in our better a 9

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Foreword ,. N PRAISE of Old Depauwn the Class of Nineteen Hundred 'i'mtW'f Eleven submits this volume of The Mirage. We asle only one con- JITISSX cession: that our readers, instead of seeleing out errors,-which are inevitable, for the editors are human,-strive rather to understand giidqfii' the spirit which has been the source of all our efforts to malee our 53319575 'kiwi offering worthy of the great institution which it seeles to ennoble in the minds and hearts of all who turn its pages: ln a sense The Mirage is a product of self-love,- inasmuch as that love is con- sidered as directed toward our own university. We argue, however, with Voltaire, that this 'iself-love is the instrument of our preservationg it resembles the provision forthe perpetuity of mankind-it is necessary, it is dear to us.H Ours is not the self-love which leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own ca- pacity,H but rather that self-love engendered and instilled into our very beings by close association with the customs and traditions of Old DePauw. These customs and traditions have, in turn, been fostered and developed by three-quarters of a century of S

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