(Breeting. ' O you, dear reader, to the College, its patrons, and the world, The Halcyon gives greeting. To you the Class of ' 97 beg leave to present the XII volume of the Swarthmore College Annual. To the Board of Editors it has been Love ' s Labor, and we trust it may not be Lost. Feeling the responsibility of our position, it has been our constant aim to represent every phase of college life in its true and accurate light. If for a moment, then, you will forget the cares of a busy world and permit us to draw aside the curtain, we shall earnestly endeavor to present to you that drama, as acted on the stage, so dear to every Swarthmore heart. Our play is one of un- ceasing interest, of new plots, acted out each day. Here we have our heroes and our heroines, and here also are characters of minor importance. But all alike are subject to mistakes ; we all have our faults, and if, perchance, dear reader, some little act of yours be here recorded, if in our friendly digs we sometime strike your tender heart, we pray you be not wroth, but receive it in the spirit it is given, since we but hold the mirror up for other eyes. It has been our desire and may we say that we will feel our duty done if we give to all a comprehensive knowledge of Swarthmore, an insight into her Literary, Athletic, and Social organizations, the extent to which each is developed, and the standing of our College in the collegiate world. To those who have so kindly aided us in our publication, we extend our sincere thanks. And in after years, when we are severed from the asso- ciations which now bind us so closely together, when the tiny tendrils of our Aldworth ivy (a gift to ' 97 from the late great Poet Laureate), shall be twining upward, ever clinging closer to these granite walls, then may this, our Halcyon, ever remain as an offering and a token of gratitude from ' 97 to her Alma Mater. The Editors. 7
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