Show THE University of Pennsylvania recently recently recently re- re adopted the rule that every student should furnish a written excuse from his parents or guardian or from a physician when absenting himself from school for a day or more Now it requires requires requires re re- quires him to obtain permission from the dean whenever he wishes to leave the school for an hour The students objected strongly to the first contraction of their liberties feeling that they were being treated like c children ildren what they think of the latter requirement would be hard to tell It seems strange to us that a body of ofas ofas ofas as dignified men as those of the faculty of Pennsylvania University should make such a childish rule It would be justi justi- t J fied fled perhaps if the students were a set of loafers who required some r rigid gid measures measures measures meas meas- ures to keep them at work The first rule as the students have said is not a practical one Often the themen themen themen men are away from parents and have no guardians and are are not ill enough to re require require require re- re quire a physicians physician's care Are they in that case to go to school entirely against their judgment nt and wholly to observe a arule arule arule rule or are they to remain away and br bring ng dishonor upon them To carry the second out would require that the dean be always accessible or hardship would be worked on the students and that there be a plentiful supply of guards to see that no one break the rule for if the men require such regime they should surely not be left upon their honor This move does not seem seem to us to be bein in keeping with modern educational ideas Indeed know of such we no condition condition condition con con- existing in public schools above the he grades except perhaps in reforma reforma- tories One of the im important t principles pIes of school work is to inspire interest in inthe inthe inthe the students and then they will need no urging to work When they are for forthe forthe forthe the most pact pait men whom the law recognizes recognizes recognizes as responsible for themselves it seems to us that if they will not work the b best st plan would be to eject the them I from school and not to burden others with such restraints Most of the students of the Pennsylvania University University University Uni Uni- are preparing for professional careers What a sorry comme commentary it itis itis itis is on their ability to take high positions in the business world if it is declared by these rules that they cannot be trusted to spend an hour from school without wasting it or a day without a certificate that they were not playing truant S J i- i Xi L' L i 1 I THE foot foot-b foot ball ll teams should be con con- congratulated c n- n the manner in m Which on their Thursday AlJ Although Although Al Al- J A they played games though the outcome was not entirely as we might have hoped still we can be glad that no unfairness was resorted to unfairness displayed displayed displayed dis dis- and that if there was any played that it was not on the sid side of our boys This is as it should be In t. t athletics as in every thing else the students stu t. t dents of the U should be examples examples examples ex ex- amples in in honor honorable bl and ge gentlemanly R conduct It would be profitable for us to emulate the course of one of the most distinguished colleges of the country I Its athletes have lost sc scores res of prizes and games because they were determined at all costs to play fairly and like t tt t gentlemen ii I at of foot ball reminds us usi i r of what a a certain Ma Master ter wrote If Y of it over three centuries ag ago 0 For as concerning foot-ball foot playing n. n I protest unto you it may rather bei be i t called a friendly kinde of fight than a ar r I play or or- recreation a bloody and murI mur- mur f practice than a sport or pastime r For not every everyone one lye in waight for his seeking to overthrow him and to him on his nose nose i though it ite be e on on n fi hard i stone stones so that that by hy this meanes sometimes their necks are an t broken sometimes their ba backs ks sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times their legs sometimes their arms sometimes one one part thrust out of joynt sometimes another sometimes the nos noses os s yo gush out with blood sometimes their eyes start out I s We can say at least that foot ball E a ti- ti e with all its roughness has not degenerated degenerated degen degen- li since t the e time Master Fa 1 i commented on it i t |