University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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“ f Y fX ' V, INTB9DI CTIO IIE long looked for is here. Despite trials and discouragements and the cry of “hard times,” this, the first volume of the Cardinal, comes before the public not doubting but that it will receive enough of criticism, and most eager to inhale any breath of commendation. Many of the defects may be credited to the inexperience ot the editors, while many of its good features may be attributed to those in other universities who have carried to such a marked degree of success the work we are now beginning. The Cardinal wishes to render publicly its most sincere thanks to the Board of Trustees for their generous support, without which there would have been little encouragement to make a start. It also acknowledges the favors rendered by Mr. Raymond Buchanan in taking charge of and con¬ ducting the minstrel troupe. The editors would like to find words by which to express thanks to Misses Hart, Griffin and Mayfield for their generous sup¬ port in the way of illustration, as a result of whose aid the Cardinal will be much more acceptable Hoping that the next editorial staff may profit by our experience, im¬ prove upon what may be commendable, and omit all things wherein we may be condemned, we editors make our bow and allow the reader to proceed.

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(Umt eretfg Of ( rtfott6CS6 not the intention of the writer to give a formal history of the University, nor to write a panegyric, dwelling upon its good qualities and leaving the bad to be found out by experience; but rather to tell it as one sees and feels who is a member of this institution. Let it be understood at the beginning that what of comparison may be made will be between this and other institutions of its kind and with which it must ultimately be ranked, and not with the little colleges that may be found throughout the country. As the institution is yet in its youth, a history would be short. Now is the time its history is being made and is being recorded in the many brilliant men it furnishes to the state. Jhtuafton The University is situated in Washington County, in the northwestern part of the state. The Ozark mountains, between whose ranges lie the most fertile tracts of the Mississippi valley, are spread in all directions. For salubrity of climate the country around Fayetteville can not be excelled. For beauty of scenery Washington County with reluctance yields the palm to the Hud¬ son; for fertile soil it stands next door to Eldorado; for fair women it surpasses anything attributed to Dulcinia by Don Quixote. Vet, although our climate is just as we have said, we suffer inconven¬ ience at the sudden changes peculiar alone to Arkansas. On one day we may be breathing the gentle zephyrs of a southern climate, while on the next shiver from the bleak winds of Kansas. Although the scenery is beautiful, beauty becomes tiresome, and the boys from beyond the Ozarks long for their native marshes. While the soil of the surrounding countr y is fertile, the students are glad to go back to the old home¬ stead on the sand hills. How¬ ever beautiful the fair sex may be we often meet those who are not altogether pleas¬ ing to man’s aesthetic nature. 5