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FOREWORD Why this yearbook? In this quarter it is the belief that there can be a no more fitting introduction to this or any other yearbook than a general review of the motives which prompt the compilation of an annual. And though such a review is quite apt to appear maudlin and, perhaps, reeking with bathos, we, with full cognizance of the presence of hardened readers, still deem it highly a propos to give an attempt at a com- pendium of why sleep is lost, brains are racked, classes are neglected, and men are cursed, so that a Lion may be published. Some will attribute this book to the demands of Tradition, but we deny this. In our Lincoln lifetime we have seen too many traditions” broken to take any blind faith in or any blind guidance from such sources of action. No, there is some- thing stronger than mere tradition responsible for this Lion. And, of course, we received no financial remuneration. Indeed, this annual, as most, is another confession of man’s prophetic soul of nostalgia. It is the admission that we men, filled through the years with a brutal sense of realities and thereby hardened, are endowed still with that sentimentality which had us carry around autograph books during our younger days, days of idealism and its idolatry. For this Lion is a chronicle, pictorial and printed, of our experiences and factual education, with the joys, the heartaches, the failures, the successes, the companionships, the fears, and the hopes accrued. And we want that chronicle. We want to remember. Summarily speaking, men entered into the arduous task of collecting the subsequent mass of facts, conjectures, pictures, and other tidbits because they knew they would want things remindful of that Life at Lincoln, as of June, 1951. We griped, but it was rather wonderful. The year 1951 is one in which doubt and uncertainty afflict young and old alike with its war and rumors of war. Only a few things are certain. One is that this book will live. For it is nurtured by man’s unerring susceptibility to that wonderful and sad feeling derived from Remembering. LEROY E. GILES Editor Four
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Dedicating Our Yearbook At first appearance, an obvious cliche, but the phrase gentleman and scholar” has seldom been employed within a frame of reference based on such high standards as that within which it is now so aptly applied in regard to Dr. David E. Swift, to whom this Lion is dedicated. Few can truthfully say that they have not benefitted from their association with Dr. Swift, who, along with his charming family, had his full stay here with the Class of ’51. By no means a strictly classroom prof,” Dr. Swift devoted his time and energy unselfishly to the campus community, to mention one instance, as Adviser to the Y.M.C.A. Cabinet. Our effort to have him appointed Dean of Men, though abortive, was neither a reflection upon Dr. Swift nor a reflection upon the sincerity and unanimity of the endeavor. Dr. Swift has since left the faculty to become Director of Personnel for the Friends Service Committee, in which capacity he will doubtlessly engender a spirit comparable to that whose impression has been left indelibly in our memories. Five
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