Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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PROLOGUE If to know the men of '15 you aspireg If to learn about our prowess you are keeng 'Tis for you that we have strung our blooming lyre, To immortalize the men of H. ,I5. If to hear exactly who we are, I sayg If to know just what we've done is your desireg Then youlll eagerly one hundred pennies pay This our 1915 Red Book to acquire. T Ah! but if you are a sort of human bear, Who for classand college doesn't give a hang, From whom friendship never drove away dull care, And for whom no three long Harvards ever rangg a Even so, one thing herein you'll surely ind That alone is worth a unit of the mint, For, twixt crimson covers that the Red Book bind, You perchance will find,-your own great name in print 7

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5 PREFACE With mingled fears and hopes, the Editors present to the class the Red Book of 1915, fears lest the task may have been beyond our ability, yet hopes that this volume may serve in a small measure to be a fitting representative of the Class of 1915, its deeds and its members, and above all, that it may be as much pleasure and proht to its readers as it has been to its authors. I Two years ago, the Class of 1913, with the aid and encourage- ment of the Faculty, published the Hrst Red Book, as an attempt to record its deeds, both for its members and for the outside World. The present' Sophomore Class followed their example with a similar volume. This year We take our places as the perpetuators of the custom. The purpose of the Red Book is to put down in some lasting form a record of the Class of IQI5. Qn the surface, We have pub- lished mere lists of names, mere pictures of men, and mere' records of events, but we hope We have, in reality, done. something more, and have made a memorial of the spirit and the traditions of the class, something which will remain as the summary of our first year at Har- vard, and something Which, in years to come, will recall not only faces and facts, but pleasant memories besides. ' If We have done this, our efforts have been successful. Complete success is, of course, impossible. We have tried, by building upon the successes and avoiding the failures of the previous books, to produce a volume that is better and more Worthy than any that have preceded it. Whether We have succeeded is for our readers to judge. VVe leave it, hoping that it may be the guide for others to come that shall be better and more Worthy. VVith these apologies and forewords, We present the Red Book of the Class of 1915. 8