New England Conservatory of Music - Neume Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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J I BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

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PUBLISHED BY THE CLASS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN

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$er Sspera ab gtetra THROUGH DIFFICULTIES TO THE STARS — such are the words we have chosen as our class motto, and they represent, in a measure, our attainments. For the publication of this book was consummated in the face of besetting adversities, yet persistent striving has brought us to the stars. In the flush of our success, we ask a lenient judgment upon ' 14 ' s Class Book, first of all, from you, dear Faculty, kindest or friends, but severest of critics. You would gladly have spared us our labor, we know, but rather than relinquish what we consider our privilege, our duty, we chose the labor. It is with feelings of diffidence that we give our little book to the world, for its conception is a new one, and originality is ever provocative of criticism. Yet we trust that the sharp edges of the grad- uates ' strictures will be tempered and blunted by the recollection of their past tribulations in the journal- istic field. We have most to fear from you, Juniors and remaining undergraduates. Your Class Books of the future are as yet but glorious visions of perfection, by comparison with which, our feeble effort must pale into insignificance. We trust our hopes will be amply fulfilled, and that the precedent we have set in replacing the Neume may be perfected and perpetuated. To those who, by effort and sacrifice, have made possible the publication of this book, the Edi- tors would extend their heartiest thanks and kindest appreciations. Their spirit of optimism and good- will has transformed a work of dull routine and dry detail into a labour of love, the recollection of which will always remain a source of pleasure and satisfaction. In conclusion, we would ask indulgence for the shortcomings and failings of our production. They were not due to lack of aspiration for the highest and best, but rather to the fact that our means and capacities subjected us to insuperable limitations. We trust that all may linger long over the good, and quickly forget the imperfect, in this little book.