Show I FARE FAREWELL WELL With this issue the present CHRONICLE board steps down and out It is with varying emotions that we resign the affairs of TIlE THE CHRONICLE to our successors on Although some of us had had some experience experience experience ex ex- none the less did we feel ourselves ourselves ourselves our our- selves a little insecure when launching our frail craft for the first time upon the tempestuous tempestuous tempestuous tem tem- sea of college journalism But Butt t the e first voyage has has been safely made THE CHRONICLE is now an established f fact ct Safely it has passed the shoals of inexperience and the rocks of adverse criticism We dont don't wish to force foice our advice upon our Cur successors but we have this to say that nothing but a a conscientious bold and fearless policy will ever succeed in college journalism We Ve saw this dimly when we wet t I first tO took k hold of THE THE CHRONICLE wesee we we- see it plainly now and see that our greatest greatest great great- est mistakes were made when we deviated most most- from this rule There will always be a few chronic kickers among the students students stu stu- dents dents- there will always be fossilized fossilize thought to some extent among the leaders lead lead- ers of this and every other institution A college paper while always remaining truly patriotic and as nearly as possible truly representative should always be in independent independent independent in- in dependent enough and fearless enough to fight every wrong from whatever source it may come to champion every needed reform to resent every encroachment upon the rights of students to assert at all times its own right to free expression upon any any- and all legitimate subjects The little we have learned about the editors editor's profession has not been learned from books It is the profession above all others which cannot be thus learned Poets are born scholars are educated skilled workmen are trained but no one ever yet traced out the complexity of causes which tend to make an editor He must have the courage of a lion the cunning cunning cunning cun cun- ning of a fax fox the wisdom of a sphinx and must possess all the sphinx's mysterious ous reserve Add to this that he must be bethe bethe bethe the friend and champion of every man even though every mans man's hand be turned against him and you get a faint idea of 1 his necessary attributes Then i imagine agine this s sort rt of being placed at the head of a college paper in which several hundred students are stockholders stockholder and every man manjack manjack manjack jack of H them em thinking the paper should be run for his sole benefit with a high and mighty faculty who want to run it themselves and failing to do so set the whole three generations of Dandy Dinmont's Dinmont's Dinmont's Din- Din monts mont's pets barking at t his heels heels imag imag imagine ine imag all this and you you may form a f faint int idea of the difficulties to be overcome by inexperienced college editors V But dont don't be discouraged It is a labor of f love and virtue will vill bring its own reward If not on this earth then it will surely come in the bright mystic future where the faithful of this earth shall wear bright golden crowns and play upon ivory harps with silver strings Then you may maybe maybe mayi i be sure that the college editor will ride on onan oni i an nn elephant at the head of the procession 1 while the they who have made hi his earthly life miserable le will tend the fires of th the steam steam l calliope and bear the big bass drums away in the rear |