University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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The college graduate is strangely sensitive to the suhtle in- fluences that enrich mind and memory during the days of under- graduate life. Amid the difiicultics which are met m the world of affairs by all who live and fight to win, the tender recollections of student days are a bulwark against failure, a stimulus to per- sistent exertion, and ah inspiration to all honorable achievement. The 1908 CoRNiiusKER aspires to be the preserver of some of these memories. It records the progress of our . lma Mater from its infancy to the present day; for the college year of igoj-tS it presents in permanent form the victories which have made us proud and the defeats which have tested our mettle ; it senes to perpetuate those incidents which, though personal, grow more amusing with the passing of the davs : and finally it contains within its pages the faces of college friends and college foes who, when viewed through the softening influence of the years, will all be counted friends. These things have been the high inspira- tion of our toil. The result is before you in the form of the 1908 CoRMiLSKKK. The editors are not blind to the inadequacy of this result, for it has come into being amid adverse and .•some- times aggravating influences. With this in view, therefore, they neither shrink from nor fear the fair judgment of the men ind women of Nebraska. If this volume shall tend to preserve those memories an l tra- ditions which will ever deepen and intensify the love we bear for our Alma Mater: if. by recalling the scenes and friends of college days, it shall stir again within us, as we count the years, the ro- mance of the morning and the heyday of our youth, then to those who have toiled will come a feeling of keen satisfaction, and they will count themselves hitrhlv rewarded.