University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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■ MeleteanT EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT THE 1916 Meletean is here. If you have any brickbats or bouquets to hurl, now is the time to let them go. The members of the Staff have all purchased missile-proof suits of armour, so arc prepared to receive all people who are afflicted with a grouch after reading these few pages, over which we have labored so long and industriously. We request, however, that all who are in such a frame of mind please call at our editorial sanctum between 5:59 and 6:00 A. M., because we arc sure not to be there at that time. If there should happen to be anyone who has anything complimentary to say, however, we will be overjoyed to receive them at any time of the day or night. (Line please form on the right and don't crowd.) We hope that you will like the cover, the pictures, the cartoons, the jokes and all of the other stuff contained in these pages. Of course it is a little bit late to change any of it now, even if it shouldn’t meet with your approval, but if it will make you feel any better to tell your troubles to someone, why just land on any of your friends that you can find, as long as they are not on the Staff. If popular wrath reaches a high enough pitch upon the arrival of this book, we would suggest that an indignation meeting be held at which the Staff would be glad to preside. To the people whom we have slammed or given undesirable publicity we humbly apologize for so doing, while to those whom we have not slammed we apologize for not doing so. If there are any of the jokes which you don't like, or can't understand, just come around and talk the matter over with us. There arc a few that are too deep even for the Staff's humorists, but we can probably help you to sec the light in regard to most of them. If you don't think that your picture makes you look as beautiful as you are in real life, please talk to the photographer and don’t increase our heavy burden of trouble and misery. We hope that this little volume strikes you at a moment when you have just received a check from home or have suffered some other piece of good fortune for your estimate of it will probably depend in part upon the mood that you are in when it is inflicted upon you. With these few words of explanation and justification for this outrage against the peace and quiet of the general public, we arc going to entrust the judgment of our literary product to your hands,Gentle Reader, and we hope that your verdict will be favorable to its well intentioned compilers. ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Meletean Staff wishes to express its gratitude to all of those who have in any way contributed to the success of this issue of the Meletean. A number of students have assisted with the artistic features and cartoon work of the book. Especially to Miss Olive Way, Mr. Harold Watson, Mr. Rodney Hurd, Mr. Gustafson and Mr. Dennison are we indebted for work of this kind. Other students and Faculty members have written articles for us, and to them we wish to extend our hearty thanks. The help which has been given us in raising money to finance the publication is also appreciated and a vote of thanks is extended to all who assisted in this way. We are especially grateful to Miss Schlosser for her work in getting Mrs. Josephine Ettor-Holmes here for a recital, for the benefit of the Meletean treasury. The Meletean is intended to represent the entire school and therefore we have been glad to receive help and suggestions from anyone who desired to help us put out a book which should be worthy the name River Falls Normal Meletean. Page 11

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