Washington and Lee University - Calyx Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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f- REFACI-: HE publication of the first volume of thr (Ial ?.l ' is attended witli many misgivings on tlie part of its editors. That the book is sadly different from that which was pictured to the enthusiastic mass-meeting of the students last fall, when it was vociferously decided that an Annual should forthwith be published, different from what we would have had it, and most sadl ' of all, different from that which would have fitly rep- resented the life and work at Washington and Lee, is only too true. But the editors would excuse themselves — and their e.xcuse — by reminding the public of the peculiar difficulties under which their work has been done. The strong spirit of conservatism that has so long characterized this institution is well known. Any new adventure must needs prove itself well before it receives the support of either faculty or students. Added to this natural distrust inspired by a new enterprise, was the recollection of the unsuccessful attempt to publish an Annual two jears ago, and a consequent inclination on the part of those expected to do work to idly await the failure of the present attempt rather than to come forward and actively secure its success. But as a considerable offset to these discouragements at home must be mentioned the steady and substantial encouragement of the Alumni. May blessings be upon the Old Boys! With much greater labor than was ever anticipated b) ' the editors, after encountering man) ' obstacles whose existence was before unsuspected, the work has at last been completed and the Cal ?I ' s given to the public, not with any claim of literary merit, but with the earnest hope that to the student, soon to leave the Campus, it may in after years recall many of the pleasant mem- ories of these years we have here spent together; that to the Alumnus, immersed in the cares of real life, it ma ' serve as a talisman to roll back the years that are past and bring him again to the bright da s of his college life, without the accompanying spectres of toiling nights and aching heads, of exams and flunks, and restore to him many of the friends that may have passed beyond liis ken; and that to the general public it ma) ' in some measure truly reflect the lights and shades of student life, the hard work done, the happy davs passed in dear old Washington and Lee. April 9. 1895.

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Corporation. Legal Title: The Washington and Lee University. Judge WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN, Rector, iSSS. Crustccs. Major THOMAS J. KIRKPATRICK, iS6o. Judge WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN, 1865. WILLIAM A. GLASGOW, Eso., 1865. Gen. JOHN ECHOLS, 1S69. Judge JAMES K. EDMONDSON, 1S70. WILLIAM A. ANDERSON, ESQ., 1S85. ALEXANDER T. BARCLAY, Esq., 18S5. H. H. HOUSTON, Esq., 18S6. Rev. E. C. GORDON, D. D., 1888. HON. H. ST. G. TUCKER, 1889. THOMAS D. RANSON, Esq., 1891. ROBERT F. DENNIS, Esq., 1S93. WILLIAM C. PRESTON, Esq.. 1893. Rev. G. B. STRICKLER. D. D., 1894. associate Crustccs. Hon. CLIFTON R. BRECKINRIDGE, Ark., 1883. Hon. W. A. M. cCORKLE, W. Va., 1893 JOHN L. CAMPBELL, Secretary and Treasurer, 1877. 12