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Excerpt from The Eunomian: Published by the Eunomian Literary Society, of Swarthmore College, 1883-84 Fearing lest the custom of publishing a college annual would die in its infancy, the Eunomian Literary Society, with great reluctance and in little hesitation, and after many stormy debates, finally decided to publish the humble production now offered to the critical eye of a critical public. Whether we deserve praise for the undertaking, or a host of invectives, let others be the judge. In our work we endeavored to make the annual more like the average college annual; having omitted the useless accounts and literary productions of inferior quality, with the idea that that which does not improve the work is an incumbrance, and should, if possible, be avoided. A college annual, at the most, can be only a publication of mere statistics, so to speak, dry and not at all calculated to make the work attractive and pleasing to a reader. It is only the college man who is interested in it, and, we regret to say, by no means the majority of these. In all annuals we see handsome designs, steel engravings, fine sketches, and a general appearance which is at once pleasing, - such an annual we cannot hope to present to the students of Swarthmore College, on account of the very poor support given here at the College. We have endeavored in speaking of the classes, to avoid all personality, and we feel that such has been the case; but should any one, (and such was the case last year, ) feel that his rights have been in any way encroached upon, - to him, as to all others, we say, it was not intentional. We have taken great care with the many names and Associations with which we have had to deal. Let any mistakes which may occur in any part of the work, be attributed to no negligence on our part, but to the great difficulty in obtaining such lists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.