Excerpt from The Calyx: A Record of the Event of the Recurrent Year Published by the Student of Washington and Lee University Lexington, Virginia A college annual is essentially a record, but bare records are prone to be prosaic and uninteresting and for some, (we refer rather sadly to those of our brothers so cruelly taken from our midst by the inexorable even painful. To enliven this record we have introduced numerous illustrations and photographs, all more or less closely related to the daily life of the University. We have introduced a series of Views of the buildings and grounds in order that those who have never had the pleasure of visiting Washington and Lee, and into whose hands the Calyx may fall may obtain some idea of our university. In the society section you will find the portraits of the young ladies who lead the various dances instead of the colored drawings as heretofore. We believe that both those who are lovers of a faithful record and those who love beauty will find pleasure 'here. We regret that unfortunate circumstances beyond our control prevented us from procuring the portrait of her who Will grace the Final Ball. We are firm believers in Humor. In our estimation, it is a poor thing that has no humorous side. Even Student life, with its interminable hash, its endless classes, its flunks and its Automatic Rules, has some Humor about it somewhere. In the College Life section, so happily instituted last year, we have endeavored to Show you this humorous side. If you see something there about yourself that you don't like, just remember that that's the way you are reflected in the mirror of humor and that we have only held up this mirror to you. None but a College widow minus her embellishments would take offense at what the mirror shows anyway. 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.