Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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‘Ulli® » S 71 til 171 roRY— I N offering the fourth volume of Tiik Cu.mb'i to our friends : 11 mI tin college world, it is with sonic feelings ol hesitation and fear lest we fail to issue one . that shall do credit to the I’raternities at Vanderbilt, and he an honor to the ( niversitv : vet we hope that Tim C'o.MHT of !•() will not he so far eclipsed hy those that have gone before that it will he unworthy to In catalogued among their numher. We expect Criticism; nevertheless, we trust that among our critics may he found those who. appreciating the work and trouble required to publish an an- nual, will give us credit for the etfort we have made, however poor the product may seem. In appearing regularly for throe years in succession, it might have been sup- posed that the Vanderbilt Oo.MUT had established beyond all doubt that it was a periodic one, with a periodicity of a year, but so long, during the session of issjl-fK). was the least sign of uch a body invisible in the Vanderbilt heavens that even the most koen-eved observer could not catch the faintest glimmer of its tail. • O and the most hopeful of prophets had almost eeased to hope. Yet still were there left a few w ho, trusting in the correctness of their calculations, predicted a Cu.m kt for iM . When the fraternities heard the rumor that a Comet, whose path lav in our heavens, was approaching with a velocity sufficient to make it visible here in 1X! 0. though still doubting the reliability of the prediction, tliev ap- pointed their editors, and instructed them to see il the calculations were correct, and to make careful observations. Kven after consulting with those who had predicted a return of the CoMET, Some of the editors were still doubtful: but those who had made the prediction contended yet more stoutly that their ealcu-