Otterbein University - Sibyl Yearbook (Westerville, OH)

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- vi-rg 'T :vi --11 7- -ii O the students, alumni, and friends of Otterbein University, we bear greeting. This volume, the first of its kind in the his- 2 tory of our college, appearing in the opening year of the ? twentieth century, it is hoped, will be received with as much century itself VVe brin t welcome as was the new . g o you promises of a new era, and we hope that as the years go on, our successors will prosper even more than have we. fp? 'W-, if-Wrfii' D A-himnn nun Lm PRINTING C0 CO IU! OH 0

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