University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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“The Quiver” Staff «M » Editor-in- Chief . . . Assistant Editor . . Alumni................. Literary............... amorous.............. Organizations . . . Athletics.............. Poets.................. Assistants.............. Easiness Manager . . Asst. ROWLAND HALSEY CARMEN E. SAVAGE GEORGE G. PRICE FANNIE L. SWAN MYRTLE HASKIN JOHN W. GAUERKE EDWARD ALLEN BERTHA HEWITT CORNELIA H. BRIGGS HANNAH HANSEN ELSIE M. FULLER FRIDESWIDESPRATT CORA E. GRAVES WALTER J. CORDY M. Wm. HECKMANN Board of Artists. FRANK R. FROEHLICH. Chairman CORA E. HEFFERNAN LUELLA V. ROBINSON 6

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 .I UJl ©education To MISS ROSE C. SWART, WHOSE NOBLE WORK IN THIS SCHOOL HAS HELPEDTO MOULDTHK CHARACTHKSOKTHK MANY STUDENTS, WHILK THKY IN TURN IIAVK CONK ABROAD TO MARK OK WISCONSIN’S CHILDREN TRUER CITIZENS. THIS B K)K IS DEDICATED BY AN ADMIRING AND APPRECIATING Board ok Editors. 6

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FOREWORD OW that the reader has gone all thru “The Quiver” and turned back to the foreword—for we take it that he is human—he may expect apologies for this publication. But no. we do not offer excuses for work done to the best of our ability. We believe that this book will stand for itself; will tell its own story of work and worry in its composition—compilation we might say—and in its business management. We will not beg of our readers to remember the difficulties under which we labored, for we know that all those who had to do with “The Quivers of former years, in manner other than paying their share of the expense, will extend to us their sympathy, and to those not so unfortunate it is useless to offer apologies and impossible to explain. And yet we should like to give to those students who are wondering at the taxes levied by “The Quiver” management, or who arc asking when the Staff is going to declare dividends, some idea of the difficulty of keeping the expense of publishing an annual like this within the receipts. We might write a long story of the woes of the business managers; of their difficulty in securing advertisements, of their efforts to get a large list of subscribers, of their troubles in keeping down the expenses, and finally of their trials and tribulations in collecting the moneys. But we will not do that. . We will simply ask our readers to remember their own experience in trying to make a little money go a long way. Then again we might tell the story of the making of “The Quiver”—of the beginning in the election of a staff, and of the first hopes and aspirations of this body the poets, the humorist, the artists, business managers, and editors—of the early start upon the table of contents, and how our hopes were blasted as we were forced to settle down to cold facts and figures and reckon in days and weeks, dollars and cents—so many pages to be filled, so much money for engraving well, if the reader cares to hear the rest we must refer him to page 145. But all of our trouble has not been without its compensation. Chief among the pleasures we experience is the thought of how well the students have stood by us in our efforts to publish “The Quiver” for 1902. And we wish now to thank all buyers of this annual, feeling sure that they will not begrudge the money so spent. We would also thank the societies for their promptness in allowing the tax levied for their pictures. And we are grateful to those teachers and students who have contributed matter for the betterment of “The Quiver.” But what is it that makes “The Quiver” worth all this work and worry, one may ask? It is the fact that the book has a peculiar value of its own. It is the annual publication designed to portray student-life from a student’s point of view. We have other publications in the school but they do not picture our experiences as does “The Quiver.” The catalog is the official document of the school to which one goes for information regarding entrance requirements, extent of course, or expense incurred; the “Normal Advance is the perodical which gives the news of the school from month to month; the 7