University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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ditorial Once more, after lying idle for a twelvemonth steam has been turned on and the machinery of this the sixteenth volume of the BUTE AND GOLD oiled and set in motion. Once more five or six devoted spirits, after spending a few months under the happy delusion of the immortal fame which clings to the name of BLUE AND GOLD e ditor, have awaked to the pain- ful reality and gone through the weary grind. Once more the old, old questions have been asked, and the old, old advice given as to how the book should be conducted and what it should contain, and have been listened to with the usual patient resignation. Like our worthy predecessors, we have lived through it all and we now present ' go ' s BLUE AND GOLD modestly, yet without apology. Why should we apologize, since it is the best effort which those who have had the honor to be intrusted with the task of its preparation could put forth, consistently with their other college duties. We have tried to make it an interesting and spicy account of the events of the past year, and if it but prove as worthy of a place among our alma mater ' s constantly improving series of annuals as ' 90 has among her classes, the editors will feel more than repaid for the pains they have put upon it. Yet we do not, like our immediate predecessor, by whom it is hard to believe naught set down in malice, pretend to any extra- ordinary virtue. Some we have hit because we like them, in the hope of doing them a service ; some, because we do not 5