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EDITORIAL Never did the editors of this book realize the full and fiendish import of the oft-quoted expression, “O that mine enemy would write a book!” until they became sponsors for Eighty-nine’s Blue and Gold. Ye who sit within the glowing circle of the student-lamp’s glare and “dig” until the hour when the voice of the matutinal milkman is heard in the land; ye who, with throbbing brains and trembling hands, hew first section themes from the granite of your intellects; ye who “go down to the sea in ships” (or schooners); ye who tramp over the everlasting hills, carrying diminutive telescopes on stilts; ye who rack your brains and pockets in conscientious efforts to master the great national game of poker;—ye all think ye know something of what hard work and troubles are; but ye are as the innocent dove or the unplucked freshman on these subjects, unless ye have gotten out a Blue and Gold. Therefore we hope that you will look with some charity upon our work which has been done in hours snatched from study, sleep or “skylarking.” We have burned the midnight gas, “regardless of expense, in order that we might please our many patrons.” We have stolen away from the crowded campus and com- muned with nature, in a vain endeavor to find a rhyme for “ Putzker,” “feldflasche,” or “Nebuchadnezzar.” We have sat up half the night and chewed the editorial stylus, waiting in vain for the evolution of the great, North American, spontaneous, side-splitting, original joke. Heavy-eyed and gaunt, we have gone next morning to recitations, (7 ]
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only to be reminded, sarcastically, that “ gentlemen are expected to devote two hours,—not ten minutes—to the preparation of each study.” But, In spite of “flunks” and tutor’s roar, In spite of study's beastly bore, we have persevered in our lofty purpose; and now we present to you, kind reader, Eighty-nine’s Blue and Gold, with all due apologies for its imperfections and with the hope that you will kindly consider any excellence which it may possess. Believing that the Junior annual should be emphatically a student's publication, we have devoted the major portion of our herculean energy to the Miscellany, Temple of Fame, and other departments which refer especially to college life. Regarding “hits” and jokes on the students, we have only to say that naught has been “set down in malice.” All has been done in a spirit of pure fun; and if, in our endeavors to give the proper spice and interest to our book, we have, in some cases, held the mirror up too closely to nature, or have painted the rose too vivid a vermilion and devoted too much attention to the adornment of the lily, we are sorry that our artistic efforts have been unappreciated. If, however, we have caused direful wrath to well within the bosom of any college mate, we respectfully refer him to our fighting editor, Mr. Somner, who is at present rusticating amid the fragrant sagebrush of the Southern Citrus Belt, or to the eminent exponent of Boston “culchaw ” and muscle, who is said to be closely related to the intellectual giant who lends the lustre of the family name to our editorial board. In the presence of either of these gentlemen, the wrath of the offended student may “well” ad libitum. To us falls the agreeable task of chronicling the advent, during the present college year, of our new president, the Hon. Horace Davis, the “counterfeit presentment” of whose manly countenance is given the place of honor in this book, as the man himself is given the chief place in the estimation of the students. In him we have an executive of undoubted ability ; an enthusiastic worker for the welfare of the University; and a gentleman whom the students may look [ 8 ]
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