Drury University - Souwester Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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lgrefarr HIS volume owes its existence to the class of '09, the members of which have worked diligently to bring out an '08 Sou 'Wester which will give pleasure and bring profit to all vvho may have the privilege of read- ing it. It has been the desire of the Junior members. ever since we were Freshmen in Drury, to publish a ebook, because we have felt that we had something to say to the world and We realize that the best method of telling the World anything is to write, for VVhat has been Written shall remain, nor be erased nor written o'er againf' Then a good book is the best monument a person can leave behind when he leaves the world. or that a class can leave when it departs from the embrace of college life. The publishing of a good book is of much benefit to two classes of people. In the first place, it benefits the writer or writers. and then it adds value to the lives of the many readers. It helps the writer in three ways: he must read carefully in order to prepare himself for the work in hand. he must converse much in order to learn human nature and he must then write what he feels in his soul that he wants to write. If Bacon is right, then the man who does these things becomes better in three ways, for he tells us that Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and Writing an exact man. It is the ideal of the Drury Sou 'Wester to be a photograph album, containing the photo of every student and teacher in the college, besides the groups of students taking part in different phases of Drury life: a collection of' short biographies of each person connected with the institution, and a medium in which there are a number of good literary productions. Of course, to vary the monotony, there must be some jokes and several local roasts. Light productions of the right sort serve a great purpose in the literary world as at laalance for the heavy and serious prob- lems. Withoiit our humor we would become a dull, sleepy, prosaic, monotonors people. In this production, we have endeavored to mix the quantities in what seems to us the right proportion. so that all who read the Sou'Wester may derive some real, beneficial pleasure from its pages. Q

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DEDICATION TO JOSEPH HENRY GEORGE, PH. D., D. D PRESIDENT OF DRURY COLLEGE WHOM DRURY HAS LOVED AND LONGED FOR FOR MANY YEARS THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED BY THE CLASS OF '09