North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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WALLACE CARL RIDDICK

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We may as well take our readers into our confidence ana tell them what we had hoped to do in this book. We ' re afraid that if we don ' t tell them they ' ll never find out, and we don ' t want to miss getting credit for good intentions at least. First we wanted the book to be distinctive, that is, we wanted it to possess some essential work or tone of its own, by which it might be dis- tinguished from other volumes of The Agromeck. Then, we wanted the book to be representative, by which we mean that we wanted it to be a picture, both grave and gay, of the year 1916-17 at A. and M. We wanted the picture to be clear enough so that when the day comes, years hence, as come it surely will, not once but many times, to every one of us, when we shall recall (with Oh, what depth of longing!) Campus and Class Room and Dorm, and the friends with whom they are peopled now, we may bring out this book and find them all again. We hoped that in such a time pillar and shade, long grown dim thru the mist of years between, might stand forth clear again as yesterday in the turning of these pages ; and forms once loved but long forgotten might start again into life : that in such an hour this book might be our guide along many a forgotten path in the pleasant Land of Long Ago. —J. B. P. r 7 ' v{K ' S917?

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Dedication To WaWace Car Riaaick Our New President Tcaclier o{ Men, Wise AdnMiiistraVor, Friend o Vlic Shtdcnt, and PronioVer o{ all Tlimgs PerVainin lo the Welfare o{ Vlic College as a Wliolc This TVic Fi{ :cent i Volume o{ the AgromccU IS affecVionaVely dedicated The Class o{ 1917