Gettysburg College - Spectrum Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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hook the next year is strong proof that nothing had sugered omitting one edition. In these present forty-nine volumes of the SPECTRUM we hnd not only a picture of the moving tide of student life on our campus since 1891, but also a history of our col- lege since that time, pre- sented in an informal yet most effective way. Through these volume; can be traced the changes that have occurredenot only such obvious changes as new faculty members and presidents, but also their influence, favorable I91 or otherwise, on student life. The SPEC- TRUM during its lifetime has seen four president; in office, has watched the faculty increase from fifteen to forty-five. It has seen the co-eds come, leave, and come back

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, :3;- lost sight of the goal set by these initiators of our college year-hook. Each year the fundamentals of the record have seen va- ried changes, and the presentation has taken on novel form, pleasing to some, less pleasing to others. But that is of little con- sequence When the underlying purpose re- mains true and undying. Enthusiasm for each new edition is ever great, assuring justzfcation for its objective. Since the memorable year of its first publication, there has been only one year, 1895, when the SPECTRUM failed to appear. Even that one time, however, was not due to lack of I81 spirit or loss of faith in the goal, but rathet to a more practical causwlimited finan- cial means. The junior class at that time was small and hesitated to undergo the financial responsibilities. Publication of the

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again. It has seen the great expansion of campus activities and organizations, and the addition of eight fraternities. In all phases of our college life the SPECTRUM has kept its unfailing record. As we, the 1942 staff, proudly took up the standard, it was with the desire to wise- ly expand our energy and talent, as our predecessors have done, in the interest of our Alma Mater. We have accepted proudly the task of putting forth this vol- ume marking the fiftieth anniversary of the SPECTRUM. It is our hope that this, the forty-ninth SPECTRUM, may form an- other important link in the never-ending chain begun in 1891. Just as in 1891, our college life today has many sides: classes, dorms, fraternities, athleticseall places where we gain experi- ences which are to be integrated in the years to come into memories of the years that have passed. The memory of past favors is like a rainhOWehright, Vivid, and beautiful, but it soon fades away? In or- der that our rainbow of memory may he ever clear in a constantly changing sky, we have here divided it into its component colors, its spectrum. Thus each part can no! be seen separately in its own glory, and, at the same time, as a fraction of the great whole. All the fun, joys, heartaches, and mishaps are here presented in informal lit- erary and pictorial style, and in separate, well-organized form, a gay account of our lHoREL Ltss mem .. vv-wr-p-gyw... i A