Middletown High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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conspicuousness. But we beg of you not to compare the literary attempts with the masterpieces of the Eng- lish languageg do not enunierate all of the hundred faults, and, above all, do not criticise this production on the same level as the College year-book. We hope you will regard this Hrst venture of the QJRANGE AND BLACK, not as an attempt at faultless lit- erary production, but rather as a loving tribute to our ALMA MA'1'ER. A perfect judge 'will read each 'lvork of 'wit With the same spirit that its author 'hnritg Surtbey the fwhole, nor seek slight faults to find' Where nature mofves and rapture 'warms the mind. THE EDITOR. 'QQ QQ Xeon W of jigs 19,555 'Z fc 'gat 4. ' esta O 'J go e r

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Ellie Hrefarr. There are an hundred faulfs in fbis fbing, and an hundred fbings migbf be said fo profve fbem beauties.-Goldsmith. DEAIQ READER: Considering the fact that but comparatively few peo- ple ever take the trouble to read a preface, we will not misdirect our energies by writing a voluminous intro- duction. And with this end in view, we will make our excuses for the appearance of this little volume as brief as possible. We freely admit all our mistakes with a clean conscience. But we trust that you will conde- scend to overlook them, and pass on to some of the features of this book-or, at least, what we deem to be features. Our aims have been high, and if we have fallen short, we have done so unintentionally. In striv- ing to attain as high an ideal as possible, in the first volume of a book of this character, only we know of the troubles we have encountered. Only we know of the neglect of studies, the sleepless nights and constant worry.. Now, dear Reader, as we are about to present this little book before you, for your critical. examina- tion, the hundred faults seem to loom up in startling

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