University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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Q0oarb of dSbtfore tE itor in=Cbief. E. PAYNE. assistant JEMtors. HARRY KNOWLES, SALLY R. THOMPSON, BLYDON E. KENYON. Business Manager ani Secretary. ALFRED W. BOSWORTH.

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TO Captain TX . T£otl)er0poon, WE, WHO APPRECIATE HIS KINDLY INTEREST AND HELP, DEDICATE THIS VOLUME.

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ttfrofcucfton. pare “ The Grist ” of ’99, we have passed through fearful trials and tribulations. Oh ! the sleepless nights, and the dreams haunted by original conundrums and old jokes. If our hair is not gray we are indeed thankful. Our staff is a model one, each member wishing to be boss and not wanting to work, so that whenever we met for business there was more scrap- ping than anything else. After a while, however, we realized that, although we were all to be bosses, we should each have to do his share of work; so we threw all our energies into the task of sorting and putting into some sort of order the chaos of literary produc- tions with which we had been deluged. Alas ! it was a hopeless task ; for after weeks of superhuman effort we gave way beneath the strain. Only two more days EAR READER: Since we were appointed by our class to pre-