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

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'l'Hli Ol FICZlAl.'l' PREPPY YPIARBOOK For guys, however, I'm not sure what the preferred eti- quette is. Is it considered bush league for a guy to ask another guy to sign his yearbook? Perhaps we should tum to Tommy Shomo, the man who wrote my Bible, To Manner Born, To Manners Bred, for the answer. Finally, a word about Mummy and Daddy. What yearbook would be complete without patron saints? And what gloriously prep role models you boys have in the Buntings. You've got to admire a man who wears a five-inch-thick gold embroi- dered crest on his blazer and stills drinks his Budweiser from a can. And as for Mrs. Bunting, she's the mummy we all wish we had. Imagine my joy, then, after having been on tour all year, eating in strange hotels and with strange people, at having dinner with the Buntings in Middlecourt. The service was gracious, Middlecourt was quite taste- fully decorated, from the Love, Lisa oriental rugs to the beer cans in the refrigerator. It was just a picture of prep elegance. I made a special effort to wear a skirt that night. Finally, in times of crisis, be it fiscal, domestic, inter- national, or imaginary, Shep Haw and I will try to get Hampden-Sydney Col- lege its rightful national press coverage. Thank you. And sign my book. GENUINE ARISTOCRACY is grounded upon lthesej principles. Its first and most salient character is its interior security, and the chief visible evidence of that security is the freedom that goes with it-not only freedom in act, the divine right of the aristocrat to do what he jolly well pleases, so long as he does not violate the primary guaran- tees and obligations of his class, but also and more importantly freedom in thought, the liberty to try and err, the right to be his own man. It is the instinct of a true aristocracy, DOI to punish eccentricity by expulsion, but to throw a mantle of protection about it-to safeguard it from the suspicions and resentments of the lower orders. Those lower orders are inert, timid, inhospitable to ideas, hostile to changes, faithful to a few maudlin superstitions. All progress goes on on the higher levels. It is there that salient personalities, made secure by artificial immunities, may oscillate most widely from the normal track. It is within that entrenched fold. out of reach of the immemorial certainties of the mob, that extraordinary men of the lower orders may find their city of refuge, and breathe a clear air. This, indeed, is at once the hall-mark and the justification of an aristocracy-that it is beyond responsibility to the general masses of men, and hence superior to both their degraded belongings and their no less degraded aversions. It is nothing if it is not autonomous, curious, venturesome, courageous, and everything if it is. It is the custodian of the qualities that make for change and experimentg it is the class that organizes danger to the service of the race: it pays for its high prerogatives by standing in the forefront of the fray. li H. L. MENCKEN

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