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PREFACE. HE Class of '96 having arrived at years of discretion, and being possessed of an ardent desire to immortalize its name, and distinguish the College by some nota- ble undertaking, decreed that a year-book should go forth; hence, there came into existence a board of editors, and thereby hangs a tale. The initiatory proceedings were highly interesting -to the editors. And then came the naming of the baby. All the aunts and cousins were pleased to participate. The innermost recesses of minds and dictionaries were ransacked. Heart-rending meetings of the board ensued, and the book was named and unnamed within a week. The aforesaid relations groaned, shook their heads, and offered no further suggestion. So out of the depths of dismay and contention arose our Donnybrook Fair. It is unreasonable to expect of the young hopeful anything more than a general resemblance to its famous namesake, or to visit upon its innocent head the few unhappy traditions which cluster • about the old Donnybrook Fair. May the saints defend us from any destructive tendencies, and may our book bear with it only the pleasant significance of its name. We propose to furnish for the delectation of our friends a vast variety of entertainment: histor- ical data for the studious, jokes for the light-minded, pictures for the tender in years (not the Freshmen), grinds on our enemies for spite and on our friends because they will not mind.” We hope to leave all the world as happy, and our readers just a trifle jollier than we found them. The peace shall be preserved though we go as year-book editors have gone to splinters.” Ours are all love licks, and should any gentleman or lady be displeased with the inveterate truth of their likenesses, they may ease their spleen by laughing at those of their neighbors, this being what so high an authority as Mr. Washington Irving terms “ poetical justice.”
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THE EDITORS DESIRE TO EXPRESS THEIR THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS:............ Miss STEPHANIE E. MORGAN. “ CLARA T. WAITE. “ MAUDE I. SCHOLL, •• JOE-C TERRELL. •• ANNA E. HALL. - M. LOUISE SMITH. •• LOUISE WEST. Mi. EDWARD W. DONN. Jr. JOHN MAHON DONN. Mrs. L. L. OWENS. •I
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We wish here to declare our unswerving loyalty to the W. C. B., resolving that, so far as in us lies, in college and out of college, by word and deed, that we will strive for her glorification. If in aught we have failed, lay it not to her charge. We trust to the good will of our readers for a kind judgment of this our first Year-Book, and hope that altogether and always Donnybrook Fair may be concordia discors. THE EDITORS.
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