Show IT is always a question among college editors whether a college paper is isto isto isto to be modelled after the ideally prefect ct newspaper or is to partake more of the character of the literary review That the journalistic efforts of college men should be largely tentative and even imitative is unavoidable add to this the fact that students having ambitions in the line of journalism most frequently fill the places on the college paper and it may readily be seen why it is that many college papers are the colorless characterless sheets we find them But the college paper paper fills fills a place in its o 0 Nn world that can be filled by nothing else it is as indispensable to the student as asis asis asis is the daily newspaper newspaper to the business businessman man or the monthly review to the scholar and the If then it be true that the college z paper is a necessity in its own peculiar rl tJ sphere may it not also be true that to tobe tobe j be successful it must work out its own destiny in its own field Why try to i imodel model it after any pattern In general ideas en enterprises and ven ventures tures seem to have a way of working themselves out out f while the human brain in which which they had their beginning becomes in part a amere amere J mere spectator viewing their progress without it And i j directing we say as we have said before a college paper should j be the exponent of the best thought in inthe i ithe the institution wherein it is published y f not imitating or echoing but having a 1 voice of its own and that voice clear conscientious and fearless J A |