University of San Francisco - USF Don Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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 Foreword A record such as this booh purposes to be, put into printed pages, must altuays take on some of the coldness and austerity of type and line. It can hardly hope to bring bach and preserve perfectly the names and events it records, in all their color and vitality. But we believe that the things here chronicled are no ordinary things — that the period these pages cover was so crowded with overbrimming life, and so living and personal to those who will read them, that its color, its breath, will well-nigh burst the bonds of print. We can but point the way; this is in a sense a guidebook. It is the reader’s kindled imagination and quickened memory that will bring alive before him the past year as he turns these scant pages, and his heart that will beat time again to half-forgotten joys and sorrows, triumphs and labors now past. If we can but start him on his way back the road, the purpose of this book is achieved. V v