Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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J ust as the keen observer of the skies till waits and watches for some wonder new, | ust as the castaway with longing eyes J ooks for a sail on the horizon blue, ' ' phe literary world must wait and watch our book — jyjust wait the advent of this work of fame, y ' hich bears the stamp of genius in its very look nd proudly wears The Garnet as its name.

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Si oariL of? Gcjifoiy ’ 86 . Gdward Graham [)aijeA, KArPA Alpha. Jc66c Ulentgemcry FHoAhcr, Psi Upsilon, Business Editor. GuAtavc Jijlvan Darwin, Delta Upsilon. Gdvdn (JharlcA ffncjle, Alpha Delta Phi, Editor-in- Chief. Frederick UJilliam Jkinner, Phi Delta Theta. 0 ASSOCIATE EDITORS. ’ 87 . UJilliam GibAon Gilmour, Sigma Phi. Gdw ' ard OladiAon (£amcron. Delt a Phi. John GricAAcn (£lute, Beta Theta Pi.

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Gcjitbriaf. THE editors of the Garnet regret the necessity of forcing upon ■ their intelligent readers a worthless book as the result of their exhaustive efforts in the production of what was intended for a literary marvel. For a due appreciation of unfitness for allotted duties and for lack of self-esteem the members of the Garnet board of Eighty- six will be conspicuous among the undergraduates of Union, in as many of whom as are his inferiors Perk, has been successful in incul¬ cating proper and sensible ideas of humility. Garnet boards always have been unfortunate in their membership, but the avowal of their poverty of ideas has been reserved for the editors of this volume. It is a well-known fadl that when a student, during the first two years of his course, has not received by the suffrages of his class-mates those desirable honors which it is in their power to bestow, he is slopped over into the Garnet board as an a6l of propitiation and retribution. Of such stuff are Garnet boards made, and in this annual repetition of history Eighty-six has proved no exception. Although well aware that the greater number of copies of our very large edition will be read and criticized by the vulgarus multitudinous , whose opinions are of little value, yet for the few copies that will reach our cultured readers, whose faculty of discrimination carries them farther than external appearances, we beg lenient judgment upon what we consider a poor book, even though it is the best Garnet ever issued. Surely, if we may not receive praise for our work, we are entitled to the encomiums of our friends for our modesty, for our acknowledgment of the sterility of our mental resources, and for our freedom from editorial duplicity. Our Garnet is dedicated directly to the idol and by implication to the class from which its editors are selected and which, in a measure, it represents. From its earliest connection with Union Eighty-six has been closely identified with the idol. In return for our devotion, the