Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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x Good masters, take it not unkindly, pray, That I have been thus pleasant with you all. ,iililll Sind Sie auch vorbereitet-gefaszt auf Alles, was geschehen kann ?- Wir miissen das Schlimmste erwarten, Wie das Erfreulichste. Le moyen le plus sur de se consoler de tout ce qui peut arriver c'est d'attendre toujours au pire. ' Si quid dictum est per jocum, Non aequum est id serio provortier. - flpicfrov psrpov 561114

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--fivvv BOARD QF EOITGRS. GEORGE LYNDE RICHARDSON, PRESIDENT. LANSING GUION HOSKINS, FREEBORN GARRET?I'SON JEWETT, JR,, GEORGE BENJAMIN ROGERS, ELLIS JOHN TI-IOIVIAS, NORTON HUNTINGTON THOMPSON,'Y' SEWELL TAPPAN TYNGQ I CHARLES SCOTT CAMPBELL, BUSINESS MANAGER. 'f Keszgfned, Skpfenzhr, 1886. - , I -M' - , -'I - ' A - . . - - ' . - . . ... ....:e - f I

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Baliuravetw. - -- 1 , 4: ' -- f . . science grows slowly, we learn on lmost excellent atlthority, and a brief study of the steps of this growth V paves the way for scientific analysis and discussion. p E Q Whether GUL-making can be called a science or no, it is true, perhaps, that a brief sketch of the history of this book may pave the way to the words we would say to our readers by way of preface. . ffvoiuimi XXXi., our GUL purports to be, and if the figures be true, .and our arithmetic is no worse than it used to bein our early days the GULIELMENSIAN must have been founded about 1856. The early history' of the publication, like that of many another great institution, .is somewhat obscure. It was at that time, and for many years after, a mere catalogue of the secret and other societies, with no attempt at the rich paper, engravings, stylish binding, and fsometimbesj corre- spondingly fancy prices, of the modern product. I , A , By slow steps, it took one more of a literary character, one of its first essays in that line being, according to his own account, a joke Aon, our esteemed Professor of Poli-tical Economy. Q The class of '7o claims to have been the first to give to the GUL a distinctively literary character. They introduced illustrations, beau- tilied the cover, and raised the price to thirty-five cents. Asia reproof for this temerity, the members of the Board were stuck fclassic term lj to theextent of about fifteen dollars apiece. Q 'But little else worthy of mention has occurred in the history of the book, if we eXcept the financial venture of the avaricious Board of ,83, whose wicked deeds and awful fate have become a traditional warning to succeeding Boardsj ' So, through various vicissitudes, and by means of reasonably suc- 5L. , ,.