Macalester College - Quid Nunc Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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that, when we are poking our editorial nose into the depths of this marvelous Annual, we can justly plead a conflict. We have a pre- monition that our English teacher at least, will grant us a permanent excuse from Shakespeare when she secs this. CSee also UShakes- peare's Life on another page.D If you will bear with us for a moment We will be serious. VVe would like to speak a grave word for our Annual. VVe do not offer any apology for it, and yet we appreciate its deficiences, and com- mend it to your kindly criticism. Even if it were more faulty than it is, we should still have much to say in favor of it. As an enterprise alone it is worthy of your support, for what ever the visible result may be, it represents honest energy, honest pleasure, and honest benefit on the part of the Junior Class. College life should not consist merely in getting what you can out of books: it should also train the student to put something into books. VVe are sure that such a work as our Annual will provide a. slight opportunity for the exercise of that talent, and undoubtedly those who have contributed, have derived benefit from their labors. But the Annual itself we consider to be worthy of your appreciation also. The work in it has been done by a great many different students, so the editors do not feel false modesty in praising it. We think that the materials are excellent, and have been cast in good moulds. We would like here to express our hearty thanks to the Professors for their ready and valuable assistance and support. VVe hope that our Annual will not bring to them any disappointment, but rather a large measure of gratihcation. Our thanks are due also to those of our fellow-students who have contributed such excellent material to our pages. XVe would especially thank the prize-winners in our story and poetry contests, for the pains they have taken to make their work suitable for our Annual. Vile would also thank you for your fifty cents. The clown is com- ing back again-Good-bye. 15

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More matter with less art! Madam, I swear I use no art at all. -Hamlet. O yes! The name. Quid Nunc? First, there's death in it, for it is written in a dead language. Utinam that it were buried! And there is also 111ystery in it: do you know XVTIZIAE it means? But there is meaning in it. You would scarely believe it, but Quid Nunc means, what now? Something new, we assure you, but we have no intention of telling you here: tl1e whole Journal is an answer to the question. See? The question mark is very suggestive- and it COIIIG first. Declare thine office. -Ant. 6' Cleo. To amuse, to instruct, to edify. Please you, farther. - Gempest. IVell then, I will tell you. NVe h.aven't a great deal to do at col- lege. In fact we get rusty. Now what is better to take the rust off, than to put ourselves in a. good position to get polished? And if we may for once, by straining our faith, believe the evidence of editors in general, the editorial chair is the place par excellence. Indeed, from personal. observation, we know that the hero who dares to grasp the college quill, bids fair to get his share of friction. VVe hail with de- light the rough times to come! Like tl1e ll'lSl111ltLl'1 at Donnybrook Fair, we are all blue mouldy for a light! I'm out oi patience. -Gempest. Oh! your pardon! Seriously, then, as Puck would say. Our ob- jects in issuing tl1is annual are varied. In the first place, we know that you will like it, and we are unsellish ever: this is a very interest- ing little publication. Then we believe that there is literary talent among tl1e professors. and we desire to have the light no longer hid- den under a bushel of examination papers: they are so dry that it might set them on fire, and they are invalua.ble! Also we dreamed somewhere, that the students themselves are great authors in the bud, and we are anxious to see what the iiowers look like. I might also state that we belong to one of the best colleges in the iNest, and are not ashamed of our dear old halls-except the lioor in tl1e lower one. Vtle think that something may be told concerning our college in such a publication as tl1is, which would be out of place in tl1e college cat- alogue: the faculty compile the catalogue, tl1e students, the Annual. Tl1e11 again. we are the Junior Class. IVe are far enough along the path of learning, to view Freshman Math, and Sophomore Greek with solemn satisfaction: and yet are not too far to sympathize with those who shall follow in the same tl1orny way. And then we are only a year from beginning our schooling over again at the first two letters of the alphabet, and while our heads are still of normal size, we have a tickling beneath the skin which feels like a prophecy. Last, but not least. we are tired of attending all the classes every day, and expect 14

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KIT Mr. Mr. BIT. OUR CLASS. Miss Isabel Elmer. Miss Mary Guy. Miss xlZl.l'lCJEl111iCSO1l. Miss jane Turnbull. Amlersou. Mr. C. K. Bitzing. R112 E. E. Bromley. Mr. Asa Ferry. Mr. 16 Geilm. T. Fliun. Slack. R. O. Tlioma