University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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Editorial IN THE COURSE of four years spent at College, many events transpire, which, if jotted down as they take place, would fill a good sized volume, but it is our purpose to reproduce on these pages only those occurrences which, in the future, may bring back jileasant memories of the past, — the real paradise of our youth — our College career. To the mind not enjoying a College education. College life is a sort of enigma. It cannot conceive of the conditions in which young men are brought together, not only for the purpose of study, but for enlightenment in all things that go to make up a liberal minded man. It is the aim of this work to combine the principal events that have made up our life at College and put them in such form as to be intelligible to all. We aim to show the cloud as well as the silvry lining of College life in the hope that some one who happens to peruse these pages may be so attracted bj ' the accounts given, that he may be stimulated to secure for himself the bounteous blessings incident to a course at Maryland Agricultural College ; and if t)y chance, a radiant gleam should penetrate the recesses of some doubting mind and induce it to avail itself of a College education, we shall consider our work not done in vain. The editors have no apologies to force upon their readers. We put forth our best efforts to accomplish the end of our desires; surely none can ask more of us. We place this, the fourth volume of the Reveillk, into your hands, trusting that you may find much that will please you as well as something to criticise.