Hampden Sydney College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hampden Sydney, VA)

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A Short History of the Kaleidoscope. AST Commencement when I looked into the seventh K.xi.rgIDoscoi-E, fresh from the presses. I felt that that artistic book owed much of its excellence to the others that came before. It owed a debt to the past. lt was the outgrowth or evolution of its predecessors. It was the product of forces and tendencies which had been operating in the foregoing annuals and which had brought grace and beauty and strength to the present volume. It began life before appearing in cold, black print to be eagerly scanned by the college boy and afterwards taken home and shown with pride to his sweetheart-a happy fate that overtakes most annuals. The first IQALEIDOSCOPE appeared at the Commencement of 1893. or there- abouts. Its life has been continuous, a new volume having been published every year. Seven volumes have appeared, and we can now review the work as a whole and discover what forces have been at work and what tendencies have been influential in producing these books. The first two volumes were small, unpretentious books of about one hundred pages, and did not compare well with their contemporaries from the other colleges. In them we see the dominant influence of that principle which is always present in the beginnings of human life and effort-imitation. Here is little originality, the slightest deal of independence in thought and method. At this time the leading colleges were sending forth year-books or annuals. which contained the college classes, clubs, and various organizations, often historical and biographical matter: and Hampden-Sidney decided to try its hand on an annual. It must, of course, be modeled after the annuals from other schools. W'e must make our book as much like theirs as possible. NVith this modus njirrandf. the editors set to work. They were inexperienced: editing annuals was entirely new tothem, and atthat time printing annuals was new work to Southern printers. As has been said, the work was imitative, too cautious, dependent. and timorous. The spirit of independence and originality of method does not assert itself. Yet the friend and alumnus of Hampden-Sidney finds in them much that is instruc- tive, interesting. and amusing. Here we have some choice historical matter: the clubs-both real and fictitious, a few poems here and there. for it will be some time before poetry gains the prominent place it deserves in THE IQALEIDOSCOPEZ a fairly good portrayal of college existence-you catch the spirit as you scan from page to page. Mr. Dandridge Spottswood, of the Class of 1893. has the honor of being the first editor-in-chief. And to his unfiagging zeal the success of the first and also of several succeeding volumes is largely due, in recognition of which the fourth volume was dedicated to him. as maker of the first IQALEIDO- SCHPE and loyal helper of its successors. I8