Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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plain and substantial repast with a dessert in the form of some other articles the nature of which we will hold in reserve, that they may be, perchance, a pleasing surprise to Your High Mightinesses, our Readers. If, in this intellectual feast, the spicing of an)- of the dishes be too high, or if the pepper of sarcasm or the mus- tard of ridicule burn the tongues of any of you, we most humbly beg your pardon. You should remember that sarcasm is most likely to be aimed at the one failing of an otherwise perfect character, for it takes a bright backgrounci of Truth to make an error stand out prominently, as a dark silhouette. Ridicul-e, like Death, loves a shining mark and strikes only at the illus- trious. So if you find yourselves mentioned- in these pages, you should be thankful that you are raised far enough above the mean level of mediocrity to become targets for our shafts, however imperfect or falsely aimed those shafts may be. Regarding the improvements which we shall endeavor to make in this work over those of former years, we shall not speak, nor shall we beg you not to be over critical of our first attempt in this line, for v e have full confidence in the fairness and leniency of our readers, so we shall leave our Halcyon to stand or fall upon its own merits. But we see you are impatient for the feast to begin, so we will make our bows and order the viands to be served at once. 15

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