Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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DITORmL graFF. (£bitor-in-cliief: EDGAR ALLEN BROWN. • iilssociote (EDitora: ELOISE MAYHAM, WILLIAM E. SWEET. ABBY M. HALL, REBE S. WEBB, FANNIE B. SMITH, ' FRANCES E. OTTLEY. Olrtist: GEORGE ELLSLER. business iUlonagers: SAM ' L R. LIPPINCOTT, ALVAN W. ATKINSON. 13

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0 iKsse whs in oixr zoltHzt years Kave wcilcKed o ' er u,s with guardiag cars; gver, wilK raiagled Hopes and fears, siding us in the way IKey did prepare Qlsng the rugged slope of learning ' s Kill to guide, • ed by IKeir kindly hands, our untaught steps. ( hief ' mengst our treasures, and our (College ' s pride, Sou are beloved alike by Seniors and by Ipreps. © Faculty, to show approval due, Ninety the 3{alcyon dedicates to you.

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EiiToRmL Preface. My critic Belfair wants another book, Entirely different, which will sell and live A striking book, yet not a startling book, The public blames originalities. Good things, not subtle, new, yet orthodox. As easy reading as the dog-eared page That ' s fingered by said public fifty years, Since first taught spelling by its gi-andmother. And yet a revelation in some sort : That ' s hard my critic, Belfair ! Aurora Leigh. N presenting to you the fifth volume of The Halcyon we feel a mingled sense of pride and regret; pride that we have been chosen to perform this duty, ' regret that the duty has been so poorly performed. But we shall not bid for praise by self-depreciation, the work which we do will be our best, and it is for you to say whether it is done well or ill. The mission of a College Annual is, to our minds, not so much to give a cut-and-dried resume of the year ' s work, or a mere list of the various College organizations; but to be a volume worth having, not only as a book of reference, but also something which may serve as a prized memento of college life, when those bright halcyon days are forever gone and we look back with kindly remembrance to the companions of our student life. Then, we hope, in the minds of all there will remain naught but pleasant memories of the class of Ninety. In pursuance of this end we shall try to give you all the statistical information usually given, with as high a degree of correctness as may be ; and, in addition to this, to follow this 1-1