Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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Safutatorg. AND now itis Eighty-six's turn. After twenty-eight volumes of the GULIEL- MENSIAN have been issued, gaining for our publication a most varied reputa- tion, we are to issue the twenty-ninth. We now present it in the sincere hope that it will add to the fairness of the fame of our college, and to the estima- tion which it has gained for itself by some previous volumes. For the sake of those who come after us in this duty, in order to gain a better understanding with those who may feel harshly used in our volume, we should like to mention, in part, the principles upon which we have written and illustrated our GUL. Realizing that men have two classes of failings,-one, those which they cannot avoid: the others, those which they should over- come,-we have striven to make none of those grinds and jokesf?j upon personalities which have left wide loopholes for criticism in the Guns before us. But, on the other hand, we consider the GUI. an -independent publication. It asks favor of no one, it promises no one either what will or what will not be inserted, it withholds all rights to itself, striving to be fair, to be gentle- manly, but, in its criticisms, sparing no evil, no foolishness, no conceit, no egotism, in high places or in low. If any one shrinks under the infliction, let him look to himself, no matter who he is, and 'see if the GUL is not just. One thing more: we remember whatjhas been sometimes forgotten,-yes, in Williams, but not to the extent, we rejoice to say, that it has in some other colleges,-we remember that our sisters, and the sisters of other fellows, read the GUI.. We have been bound to keep Eighty-six's GUL pure, let all who come after us follow our example. We are willing to leave the verdict with those who will read the GUL: we are intolerant of sham and sentimentalism, and we hope that these two evils will squirm. Our grinds we believe to be just, our fun is without a shade of ill will, our wit, if there be any, is to be taken in just the same hearty way in which we give it. Correct your faults, ye that wriggle, spare the GUL your railing, do not believe the editors are lost to all good, but, just for a moment, 7

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'ru WILLIAMS CDLLEE-E AND HER ADMIRERS AND FRIENDS THIS YULUME IS EDRDIHLLY INSERIBED BY THE EDITURS.

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believe that you are not mirrored wholly with injustice. Seniors, we have been very easy with you. Your quasi dignity has saved you much you deserved5 and, if three previous GULS have not opened your eyes, we spare you. Jun- iors, you and we are one. We are living our third year together, and we per- ceive, though we love you, that you need many hints 5 but we give them in a very brotherly fashion. We feel we have many of the same faults 5 the mirror has turned on us occasionally. You and we are of Eighty-six. We have striven to do honor to our class, and we ask you to be the kinclest critics 5 for, with your praise, we can bear the harsher criticism of others. Sophomores, -well, all we can say is, you need it 5 may it do you good 5 remember, there is hope for a green pllllkllllfi Freshmen, we have quite an affection for you 5 but that very affection would call for more inflictions from us, did we not feel that you have had scarce time to show yourselves. You will get your complete quota of grinds next year 5 never fear, there's a rank broth a-brewing for you. But now you are childreng and you know there is an age under which infants are spared the slipper, though they need it. Of all friends in college, at home, and everywhere, we beg four things, -don't ask us to explain any jokes, for we are weary 5 don't ask how much money we have made, for we are broke 5 don't ask when the GUL is coming out, for it is out, don't ask who wrote this or that, for nobody wrote them, -like Topsy, they just growed. Brothers in Eighty-six, in after years, when we all, Faculty willing, become alumni, when we begin to pull out the solitary but increasing gray hairs, when business bothers, and sober days multiply, go to your book-shelves, and take down your old dusty copy of our GUL5 read over again the old grinds5 take a glance at the sketches 5 recall old Eighty-six, some dead, but some still living5 laugh once more5 dream you are a college boy again, -and so drive out the killing cares with this mixture of sense and foolishness. . P Tm: EDITORS.