Olivet Nazarene University - Aurora Yearbook (Bourbonnais, IL)

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■31011 Sritraieft to S?u. ©roar 3. Walker, E. B. (ittr HHmtrfi $Irf miinit Whose cheerful sel-f-denial and devotion to the school and whose faith and holy life are worthy o emulation, we lovingly dedicate this first issue of the AURORA.

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• • (fiN OTHER school year has gone, never to return; never | to be lived over again, except from time to time as memory brings forward and thrusts before the mind ' s eye glimpses of the past. It is human nature to attempt to forget the unpleasant and to remember that which is pleasant. If thoughts of the dislikes, mistakes and misunderstandings of the past could be forever blotted out, the ideal could perhaps be reached. But human acts are so related and the workings of the mind so com- plex and interwoven that to obliterate the unpleasant leaves only the mangled and torn fibres of the ideal. There is the consciousness with us that we have not attained to the ideal in this work, but an effort has been made; and we trust each subsequent effort will bring the AURORA nearer to the coveted goal. We put into your hands this, our first, attempt, begging that you re- ceive it kindly; it being our first venture, we ask that you condone its faults and appreciate its virtues. We have endeavored to make- it not simply a record of school affairs, but a book of interest, not