Hamilton College - Hamiltonian Yearbook (Clinton, NY)

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IM IHE C O P Y R.I G H T 1 9 3 'I I 4? XJOHN L. HENNINGER EDITOR MOSES SWEETGALL ANAGING EDITOR RBERT T SLADE BUSINESS MANAGER XXXXXXXXXX

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OREWORD With no undue apologies or unnecessary boastings we present to you the seventy-ninth issue of the Hamiltonian. With that dictum, any further self-criticism is forestalled. Therefore, we will tend immediately to the more important purpose of giving you new editors the two most helpful suggestions which we have gleaned from our labor. We are not naive enough to suppose the suggestions will revolutionize year book editing, because we should be surprised if any person ever read this Foreword other than next year's editor who will do so to find out what one puts on such a page. But this is to us a purging of our journalistic system, which has at times become rather clogged. We agree conventionally in saying that the annual serves a valuable dual purpose of enjoyment and mnemonics, and as such repays any effort in producing it. As a record of social or athletic activity, however, it is indubitably interesting, but scarcely accurate. It tends to become a collection of personal and often prejudicial views. For this reason we recommend omission of everything but necessary fact in all write-ups. A second suggestion, and perhaps a more important one, is that the book become a bi-annual. This matter is entirely for financial reasons. We adopted this idea when we dismissed the worryiof why students at Hamilton fail to support their publications and also when we found that the book would again be a senior rather than a junior publication. As a bi-annual, the book would entail more work, but less expense, and this should prove very advan- tageous to the book as a book. With these two suggestions we leave you. If they are of assist- ance we are satisfied, for we have derived much pleasure in preparing this annual and hope that nothing important has been omitted.