Show STUDENT LIFE 134 lege paper should serve as an incentive for literay production” This is in part true More properly speaking it should serve as an incentive for individual thought and for individual expression on work the part of the students Text-boo- k tends to make imitators of us all We need the literary society the debating society the college paper and similar organizations to counteract this tendency As Dr Paden so lately told us “the greatest men and women that the world has seen have been those who were not afraid to do things and to do them before some one else had done them” Whatever its purpose may be a college paper when it is passed from hand to hand among the people of the world serves as a criterion by which the students of an institution and the institution itself are judged The following is an extract from one of our exchanges : “A number of schools that hitherto have not published papers are doing so this year We extend them our sympathy” The staff of Student Life appreciate that sympathy At the beginning of the school year when the question as to a college publication came up it was unanimously accepted by the students As a result Student Life was ushered into existence Under the existing conditions it has probably fulfilled all expectations but for many reasons it has not been all that could be desired The element in school that should have given unbounded support failed us We have been able to publish but three articles written by a college student other than a member of the staff We congratulate the lower classmen on having done better work Yet their contributions have been limited in number In our alumni notes we have been able to pubAs a result our lish but few extracts literay columns have been filled mainly by faculty productions a thing which is undesirable This does not mean that the waste basket has been but that the students have been inactive As regards the financial part the manager has encountered similar difficulties From students faculty and alumni numbering in all 650 persons 150 subscriptions have been received By the support of the business men which we heartily appreciate and not by the student body has the existence of Student Life been maintained We take this opportunity of thanking those who have supported us To those who have not supported us we would say: Reconsider before another year remember that since the students and the institution are judged by the effectiveness of our organizations you owe it as a duty to yourself your fellow students and your institution to support all worthy enterprises undertaken To all we can say that we are conscious of having your sympathy and good wishes but such will not maintain a college paper over-crowd- ed ft ft ft ft ft DEPARTMENT NOTES Engineering Trip In order that they might see a little of the practical engineering world a party of Senior and Junior Engineers Merrill Brown Callister Nebeker Pyle West and Crawford in company with Professor Jenson spent the school week beginning Tuesday May 5th visiting some of the principal engineering works in the state |