Show Pseudo Loyalty IT JT has been noted by many and we think with undue regret that what is known as The College Spirit is less fully developed in our smaller western institutions than in the older and larger ones of the east If this term means the trie 1 intense n tense class and bitter hatred that in colleges colleges colleges col col- so many large arge col- col leges and universities ties exists bet between een the upper and lower classmen we unhesitatingly unhesitatingly unhesitatingly un un- hesitatingly condemn it We will lend our voice and our influence to any enterprise enterprise enterprise en en- that tends to create a legitimate loyalty but we distinguish between loyalty and servility i ty between true allegiance and prejudice We do not mean to say that class f feeling eling is manifesting itself at present among our students to any alarming degree but some of our speech-makers speech in their enthusiasm have held up those J. J institutions in which this feeling is k 7 f strongest as models worthy of our imitation We have say they none none of the true college spirit We would like them to be more definite If the true trite college spirit means that which manifests itself in brutal initiations into secret societies cane rushes cane rushes and the various other Dark- Dark age survivals that disgrace modern college college college col col- lege life we can only say the less we have of the true college spirit the better Notwithstanding the crudeness of pioneer manners there is a a. commendable commendable commend commend- able spirit of independence manifested by the average western youth a a spirit that more nearly coincides with American Ameri Ameri- can institutions than any other whose manifestations we have observed I Who would desire to see this manly independence supplanted by the worst forms of conventionalism conventi as as they have survived vert in many eastern colleges It seems to be the desire of some to do certain things because they are done at Harvard or at Yale We advise these to read the college papers and see if the best element in these institutions are not discouraging the tl-te very practices they wish to imitate It is of course not advisable isable for for forus us to isolate ourselves to to begin at the beginning as though there had been no colleges in existence whose experiences experiences experiences ex ex- successes and mistakes we might profit by but let us be sure it is their successes and not their mistakes that we engraft upon or own institutions The CHRONICLE is opposed to any division in athletics on the basis of upper and lower classmen It advocates advocates advocates cates th the merit system here or else else- where Let us have athletics for th the thu sake of the benefit t and pleasure to be derived and not for the sake of class A. A r f. f W distinction And when we have organized organized organ- organ fe- fe our various various associations on a working basis let us give them positive support by dili diligently with them 4 leaving as we safely may the proclaiming proclaim- proclaim r ing of our excellences until we have really attained them Wt |