Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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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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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