St Xavier College - Xaverian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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FOREWORD HE OFF I CERS of The Xaverian wish to thank wholeheartedly all those kind friends of the College who have contrib- uted in one way or another to the hoped-for suc- cess of our yearbook. We are especially grate- ful to The Traxel Art 00. and The Huber Art 00. for the use of the engravings with which this book is illustrated, to the United States Printing Co. for permission to reproduce Frank Duve- neckts famous masterpiece, TThe Whistling Boy? and to our many advertisers for their liberal patronage. The X avertan, 19211,, is the first yearbook tn the history of St. Xavier College, and this fact must be made to cover a multitude of sins. Pioneer eforts in any direction are almost inevitably crude. There were no precedents for the stay? to follow, no past issues to serve us as models, no long-establtshed traditions to make straight our path. We had to pick our own way through an uncharted, bewildering ocean of details, and if in some cases we have not chosen so wisely 01' so tastefully as we might, the reader is asked to recall that ttwe were the first who ever burst into that silent sea,n and to judge us not too harshly. Page Nine