Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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Editorial TH E CRIMS( )N is now in your hands. You are comparing it favorably nr unfavorably with similar publications of past years, and with the Annuals of other institutions ; you are considering your one dollar and a half either well invested or foolishly spent. 1 he Editor, upon whose head will fall either praise or censure, honestly hopes that the volume pleases you; it so. hi satisfaction is unlimited; it not. he submits gracefully. We may not have anything witty in our hook, and we mav nut have anything that pleases your fastidious taste, hut it you do not like it you need not tell us of its faults, tor we know more about the faults of this hook by this time than you do. However, there is one thing of which we feel jutsly proud. This Crimson has been compiled in two months ' time. In other years the work was started in the tall, hut this year there was barely two months from the time the staff was selected until The Crimson went to press. We undertook this tremendous task that you might have some little remembrance of this year ' s work. The Editor feels that if this Annual is at all successful, it is largely due to the hearty support given by the student body. The various organizations have responded promptly and cheerfully to the demands made upon them. 1 he spirit of mutual help and co-operation, by the way, has asserted itself very generally this year, and seems to have permeated our whole College life. From the start, and in all the arduous labors incident to com- piling this volume, the Editor has had the hearty and earnest sup- port of the members of The Crimson staff, and to them he feels deeply grateful. On behalf of the staff he wishes to thank all those who have in any way contributed towards the success of this Annual ; thanks is due also to the Oshkosh Engrav ing Companj for their splendid and rapid work, and to the Meyer Rutier Printing Company for their careful and conscientious work in the printing and binding. We cannot but feel grateful also ti r advertisers whom we recommend to your patronage. We have endeavored to set down on these pages a faithful record of events which in after years will cause you to re-live sum; ot vour former experiences on our beloved Campus, ami incidents which in years to come will freshen and recreate in vour memorj scenes and faces of other days. This has been our aim, and in closing we ask you to attend with diligence to this 1917 Crimson of Dear Old Ripon, in which volume may he found fact and fiction dea r to a Ripon world.

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Dedication To THOSE WHOM. BY THEIR GENEROUS AND SACRIFI- CIAL CONTRIBUTIONS, HAVE ENABLED OUR COLLEGE TO LIVE. WE, THE STUDENTS OF RIPON COLLEGE. GRATEFULLY DEDICATE THIS, OUR 1917 CRIMSON.

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Our Ripon Fair she rises on our vision, crowned with trees and clustering spires; Fair is she in springtime verdure, winter ' s snows and autumn ' s fires. Smiling skies are grav above her; in her heart eternal youth Glows, and lights, for those who love her, paths to victory, paths to truth. CHORUS Ripon ' s name and banner ' s hue Inspires to courage and victorv, Beauty and strength for service true Greet us, O Ripon, in thee! From the bosom of her hillsides came the gray strength of her walls, Friendships ' bonds in hearts are stronger, bonds no time or space appals; Years may scatter, fame disdain us, yet the love which she imparts Bids us pledge her lives of service, grateful tribute of true hearts. R. F. G. ' 11. D. K. D., ' 15.