Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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If t.l]i§ book lacks aught in wit or serjse, ©r jokes appear a trifle den§e ; ' Twas r)ot for lack of dood intents, ©f searchjigg earrjestly to firjd Sorrjewhat to suit each rea der ' s rrjind. We pray you, then, to be n]ost kind, Wl-jatever does not please your eye T urn o ' er the leaf and pass it by. T o each of you we wish it said- — pead as you ' d have your alcyorj read.

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spare moments hastily snatched from busy college life, and lias not had the advantages that arise from continuity f)f thought and oi)]jortiiiiity for uninterrupted effort. It may be said that one mission of The Halcyon is to jest, but not to jest in a way that leaves a sharp sting behind it. To do so, is both cruel and unmanly. Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead ' s insult points the dart. We trust that the victims of our harmless jests may bear in mind one of the wise sayings of old Plautus: Si quid dictum est per jocum Non £equum est id serio provortier. As we place our little work — the result of some spare moments of col- lege life — before our Class and in the archives of our Alma Mater, we feel both a sense of pleasure and of pain ; pleasure, that the work devolved upon us is performed ; pain, that we are brought to a severance of our relations with an agreeable companion. 19

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