Show in STUDENT LIFE Chapel There has been considerable com- ment on the action of the college students in declining to participate in chapel exercises as suggested bv the College Council Criticism has been both for and against the student action As part of the body whose vote rejected the proposition we feel that a few explanations would not be out of place The majority of the capable students persons who could assume the function of chapel speaking and perform it with credit are overloaded with work This may be due to nothing but the students’ own desire but it is nevertheless true that actual class work holds some prominent leaders away from such activity In some instances believe scholars though not of we the highest quality would consider the slighting of a lesson for the purpose of perfecting a chapel talk a severe breach of “student honor” In such cases precedence along any line other than direct class work would be underestimated With the grade lower and the student higher the former would be the judging point Grades seem to be the main criterion in our own as well as other western colleges of the standing of a student We know instances where the chances for a position were ruined by the fact that the students’ records failed to show enough high grades As long as the student sees more actual benefit in a grade than in some other things he will work for the grade Our athletics are dwindling away We haven't as yet the shadow of a track team We have no basket ball team recognized as an Agricultural College team Our paper A debating needs more support society is a thing yet to be realized Our few literary societies are suffering from neglect We see small contest hope of an of anv kind until the football season opens next fall With so many distinctly student affairs dying from disuse we can hardly see theTogic of usurping the legitimate field of the faculty inter-collegia- te Student Mora lily The secret mark in the book the name in the hat the notch in the rubbers the initials on the cane or umbrella speak only too plainly of the moral degeneration which always exists where men exist It is a fact that it is an impossibility to pick at random two hundred honest individuals In the world where competition is fierce and where a man to be counted a success must exercise not always his highest instincts we see some excuse for a weak man throwing down the bars of conventionality and law and feeding on the fruits of others Where there is much oppression and vice where wrongs are righted unjustly where schemes and subterfuges plots and counterplots exist for personal advancement the man who is not well grounded in funda- - |