Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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In learned Greece of long ago, When maid or man his fate would know. A god or goddess ' shrine he ' d seek And there with blanched lip and cheek, Before the priest, on tripod placed. In inmost room with horrors cased, He ' d ask the god a sign to give — How, to prosper, he should live. The god would show in riddles dark — But clear to one in whom the spark Of genius burned — where were the rocks He should avoid, and where the walks And pleasant fields which life would cheer And make still sweeter year to year. If they were sought. The temples now Are laid in dust ; yet ever, how To make their lives one round of joys. Consult their stars, both maids and boys. To aid these seekers after bliss. To keep their steps from going amiss, To point out where their dangers lie. To save them many a future sigh, To help them on the road to fame, To win for ourselves some of the same ; We, the Eds., with a bow and a scrape, Present our work in the present shape, Hoping that some from its pages may glean Hints which will help to cleanse of their green. Its name is classic Greek, you know. For classic men we made it so. Now, D. U. Students, ' ' goody, dig, and ' ' bum, Hear the oracles from the Adytum.

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THE ADYTUM, EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY E. J. PRICE, W. L. THICKSTUN, J. SINSEL, J. H. WILLIAMS, C. H. BOSLER, STUDENTS OF DENISON UNIVERSITY. GRANVILLE, OHIO: KussMAUL Shepardson, Printers. JUNE, 1888.

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PREFACE. After a silence of six years the i DYTUM again appears before the students of D. U. The vohime of 1882, the only one ever issued before, was edited and published by the fraternities then existing in the University, name- ly : Sigma Chi and Beta Theta Pi. It was then their intention to miake the Annual a permanent publication, but for reasons which seemed sufficient to those wha inaugurated the movement it was not repeated. Often,, however, the wish has been expressed that the publica- tion be started anew. Almost every year it has been talked of among the fraternities, but the diffi.culties irk the way of its publication seemed too great. Last Fall,, however, thinking that the increased prosperity of every- thing connected with the University Vv ould justify the revival of the Annual, a movement was started among- the different chapters here, looking to this end. A joint committee was appointed which drew up articles of association to regulate its publication ; but upon more mature consideration, two of the chapters thought it unwise to proceed, believing that it could not be made a financial success. Here the matter was dropped for the time being. But the present editors, realizing that.