St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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EDITORIAL BOARD. Evmis Mullnn Nichols Sinclair Douglas llrnmly Conn Collison Lyons Melvin Mayo Dohanmi Stmhorn

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Frologue. -H'-! l l l l l' OW swiftly Father Time unfolds his scroll, of which the unrolled portion is the Future, the other, increasing in size, the Past 3 and between these the Present, that short and flying space I The present finds us finishing the second volume of THE RAT-TAT, which is the completion of a task for the faithful performance of which we have put forth the best of our efforts. We know now from experience that there are many things easier to do than publishing books. By this we do not mean to say that we regret having.taken this step which has acquainted us with a new field 'of work 5 on the contrary, the work gives us pleasure because it has been the means of binding us closer together as a class, also of producing greater unity and harmony among us. Soon after the first volume of THE RAT-TAT was pub- lished, we came to the conclusion that our class history wouldnot be what we still hope it will be, if there was not at least an attempt made to publish an annual for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. This annual has for its purpose the portraying of our ways of doing and thinking here. So, dear reader, we hope that while you are reading these pages, there will be brought to your mind pleasant reminiscences, if you were once a student of old St. John's 5 and if you were not, again we hope that you will hold our ancient school as high in your esteem and favor as we do. Perhaps one will notice some things that are not entirely original. Respecting these, we shall say that it was our intention at the beginning to be entirely original, but we came to the conclusion later that our work would be wanting in completeness if these things were left out. There are some things here that are like history, in that they do not change g if at all, only very slowly. f Notwithstanding all our care and diligence spent in the compilation of this work, we fear that through our inexperience there may be some parts which will be the objects for criticism by some who are better acquainted with the art of book-making than we are. Of such we ask that the errors be attributed to our inexperience rather than to our lack of interest. With this short introduction, we modestly send our representative to you, desiring that it will so well per- form its mission that our Alma Mater will have reason to be proud of it.