University of Pennsylvania - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Board of Editors. George Wharton Pepper, Chairman. john Ashhurst, 3d, William Francis Audenried, Edwards Sanford Dunn, john Sims Forbes, Oliver Huckel, Leighton Lee, Edward Alden Miller, Francis Wenrich Sheafer. Entered according to College custom in the Library of the University of Pennsylvania as a Souvenir of the Class of Eighty-Seven. 4

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J' LITTERAE SINE MORIBUS VANEE. The Record lass of '8 with an Appendix, Containing Full Statistical Information, from all Departments of the 7, University of Pennsylvania. Published by the l Graduating Class of the College Department. june, 1887. Press of Times Printing House Philadelphia

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Introductory. l SYN Wig? lx NE of the chief requisites of a Nineteenth Cen- K WH , tury book is a good preface, and it is therefore with some hesitation that the committee ven- tures to send forth the RECORD OF THE CLASS OF '87, with nothing more formidable than a prefatory note to introduce it. The committee for a long time recognized ff, ff, the fact that there was something' lacking in f modern English literature, and that there was a crying need for a work which should nll the deficiency. Excellent as are the literary contributions of Howells, james, Haggard, Dr. M'Cosh, Dean Stanley, Matthew Arnold, and Peck, of the Milwaukee Sun, and, in a somewhat different, though equally important field, the works of Professors john G. R. lVlcElroy and Albert S. Bolles-admirable as all these efforts undoubtedly are, still the Mtzkmz Thule of desirability has not yet been reached. ' Strongly impressed with the necessity of doing away with this reproach to literature, the committee has determined to give to the world this RECORD of the unexampled career of an unexampled class. Exactly how the book is to supply the need on account of which it was created, will become evident as the reader approaches the southern cover. The contents of the RECORD will be seen to be at once explanatory and definitive, narrative and descriptive, argumentative and excitatory, per- ze.. . . . if fm 5