University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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I as i (D©ii(0 a®i Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards, said Soren Kierkegaard. College yearbooks are always traditionally bedecked with quota- tions. This one is more than a quotation — it is applicable to yearbooks themselves. For a college yearbook is a record of the present to be viewed in the future as a record of the past. The formative years it represents are the years which are looking forward to the future. Twenty years from now, say, the faces in this book may seem odd — not at all li ke the persons as we remem- ber them. The clothes may seem dated and everyone will look terribly young and uncertain. That is as it should be; reflection is a privilege reserved only for the experienced. Here then is the record of a group of young people growing up in uncertain times — as all young people do, and as ready and eager to meet them as those twenty years from now who read these words.