Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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The Stanford Quad 1912 FOREWORD HIS book, the eighteenth volume of the Quad, is the result of an effort to condense a year of Stanford life between two red covers in such a way as to present to those who turn its pages a more or less complete view of the events that have come and gone. It has not been our good fortune to be able to chronicle a string of athletic victories as have most of our more recent prede- cessors, but still success has been with us often enough to lead us to believe that the change is not such a permanent one as to denote that Stanford is on the decline, as one of our misguided alumni has claimed. The college year has been a particularly active one despite the fact that everyone, entertaining the slightest hope of graduation, has been bound more closely to his books by the lines of increased scholarship requirements. It can be safely said that more people engaged in some sort of athletics within the year 1910-11 than ever before in the history of the University. The causes of this have been the popularization of soccer and the creation of post-season rugby and baseball games between the various fraternities and organizations. We regret to say that, in all probability, this edition of the Quad will be the last to preserve the records of Freshman games, because of the recommendation by the Academic Council that all first year men be declared ineligible for intercollegiate competition. This probability has not yet become a fact, and we sincerely hope that the plan will be reconsidered and Freshmen be at least allowed to be members of the Varsity teams. Our intention throughout the entire preparation of this book has been decidedly different from that of those who have held our place before us. Instead of trying to increase the size of the Quad, we have endeavored to make this volume as small as possible, owing to the belief that the growth in bulk of recent issues has been abnormal and unneces- sary. If the expansion were to be allowed to continue, the Quads of classes to come would have to be printed in two or more volumes. We have tried to make but few innovations because we realize that Quads are Quads and neither can nor should be anything radically different from what they have always been. The inclusion of the sports of the spring season of 1911 is the mark of a change from the past, but it is a change that would have been attempted long before, if previous editors had had the same opportunity as the present one. Our ambitions have not all been realized and the book lacks many things that we would have it contain. Disappointments and hindrances have been many enough to greatly increase our work, but if this book is judged to be a typical and fitting memorial of the college year, we shall consider ourselves well repaid. J. W. Howell.

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