Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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In addition to the ordinary features of the book, we have also sought as far as in us lay to make it attractive from a literary and artistic point of view. For whatever assistance we have received from without in these and other lines, we wish to express our sincere gratitude. The book, which is entirely a product of our own conception, resembles previous volumes in but so far as our best judg- ment dictated. We have striven to make its general tone progressive as its history, which is the first confined entirely to our new college home, warranted. We acknowledge that we have laid down a difficult course to follow in this work, and hope that we have not totally failed therein. Of our attempts we are willing to say as Martial did of his, “ Sunt bona, sunt quaedum mediocria, sunt mala plura. Quae legis hie : aliter non fit, Avite, liber.” Whether criticism of the public be laudatory or adverse, our attitude toward it will ever be this, to “ trust him little who praises all, him less who condemns all, him least who is indifferent about all.” Editor. Collegium quisque uniat, non quia pulchrum, sed quia suum. Seneca {Adapted) .

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ELENTEESS time has gathered another year to the irrevocable past, and the season for another edition of the Ciarla has arrived. After many weeks of indefatigable effort, for pouou toi choris onden eutychei ” hampered greatly by lack of time, we are at last prepared to present this book to what we hope will be a charitable public. Every author is careful to state the purpose of his production, whether it be real or imaginary, and, owing to the recent marked departure from the prescribed limits of our college annual, we feel it especial !} 7 incumbent upon us to define its proper sphere. In the first place, a college annual aims to be of interest to the public at large, as well as to students. Great care must therefore be exercised to select material that will be satisfactory to both. Furthermore, a college annual is preeminently a book of the student body, and it is therefore wholly improper to introduce on its pages extensive treatises of parties beyond the confines of that body, except in certain well-known and justifiable cases. Besides, a college annual should never be a book of irreverent caricature and unreasonable satire, but should be a truthful representation even in matters of pleasantry and censure, which always have a legitimate place in a work of this kind. Above all is it without the province of a college annual to enumerate all the eccentricities of professors and students and harp upon them ad infinitum , and thus endanger the welfare of the institution. It is not the poor qualities of men that we wish to give permanent form, but the good. These it is desirable and profitable to remem- ber. Still further, we wish to share the charitableness of the poet who says : Ah ! never on earth do we find the best, But it waits for us in a Land of Rest ; And a perfect thing we shall never behold, Till we pass the portals of shining gold.”

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MUHLENBERG COLLEGE Colors : CARDINAL AND STEEL GRAY YELL Fizz, Fizzy, Fuz, Fiz ! Poo, AnTipoo ! Terras. Rattlers ! Zigzag ! Boomerang, Crash ! Muhlenberg ! FOUNDED, SEPTEMBER 4, 1867 NEW QUARTERS OCCUPIED JANUARY 3, 1905 6