Show i- i l Word to the Wire Wie t f The It is worth ten years of ones one's r Trouble of It All lf life 1 e to learn 1 earn to separate t e the theman th e man from his actions actions to to view view- a mans man's manso o social and moral mistakes with the same W spirit that one views a ma mans man's s 's intellectual miscalculations Such a man among J other distinctive qualities discards the theRo Ro ti g t word offense from the language because because be be- cause he knows that so-called so offenses are areg g usually unintentional and that those which t 4 f I are aie intentional are so because of a supposed sup sup- r posed justifiableness f We Ve have written at times this winter in such a way that seemed to presume in our readers this acquirement above l named We have assailed certain things in our friends with a seeming fierceness of language and some some of those friends and some of our readers did not suppose r or suspect that we still loved those friends friend dearly We have learned to separate the man mar manfrom manfrom from his actions some actions some of our readers reader have not How After the appearance of lasIt last las It Taken was wee weeks week's k s e editorial d. d I two or three members of the senior class said very angry angry an an- gry things things some some very unkind and quite quit untrue Nevertheless we shall not le lethe lethe let the student paper appear to be the medium of personal rancor We take it all with good grace and a wink at frail human nature nature nature na na- ture especially since as wo would ld be expected expected expected ex ex- the expressions of anger seemed to be proportionate to the extent to which each felt a personal application of the truth of the editorial Something Some feeble assertions were Further ma made d e t that h at c class I ass spirit h has as b been een I on It t noticeably increasing for several years This is quite true of nor normal al and prep students But surely it is hard to make out a case in the face of such facts a as these The collegiate s students do not now have even in nominal existence a single fraternity debating club or literary society society soci soci- ety for two years the junior classes have not even got together tog to effect a class organization organization organization or or- on Arbor Day the sophomores sophomores sophomores mores did not plant a single tree the only collegiate class social in our memory was wasa a solitary one three years ago only two freshmen banquets have been given so far as is known in the history of the institution institution institution in in- and those of three and four years ago but ago but let us not not confess too minutely What We vVe repeat that if a senior We Mean Do class is to give Sive day class-day exercises exercises exer exer- let let it be true to itself and honest of o such form with the public by giving with its exercises as will be consistent the own class history Do not present the theis class if of roses public with a bouquet 1 l I lor is a garden of honeysuckles peach h trees tees r do it simply because or oaks Do not 1 gardens of trees rose in eastern colleges and nd in western schools high-schools present the public with a bouquet of roses Now this years year's senior class may possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly give such a program as will not be beso beso beso objectionable All we said was so very that the appearance of hypocrisy has happened in the past and it may happen happen happen hap hap- and said further that pen a again ain soon we if the younger classes expect to present the public with a bouquet of roses loses by giving the conventional form of day class-day exercises then they should see to it that they cultivate a garden of ros rose trees This The impression seems to Years Year's Policy hc 1 have lave b been een got b by y some t that h at atthe the he editorial in question was a sling at the senior class because of a lack of much class lass spirit Strange Strange that this impression should be got especially when when this hears hear's management started out with ith one of the most striking features of its ts policy by level reversing sing the attitude attitude at at- titu e of past editors of the faculty in general and of the so-called so patriotic students students students stu stu- dents in the institution reversed institution it by bythe bythe the he positive new attitude that students are not to be blamed or reproached hed for any lack of class spirit or college pati patriotism patriot patriot- ism ism any more moie than a chicken is to be blamed for not picking at the ground either when there is no worm there or when it can see no worm itself and we westill westill westill still further reversed precedent by declaring declaring de de- claring laring it to be our belief that the custom of endeavoring to drum class and college college col col- lege ege spirit into the students by sei sermons mons at mass meetings mass meetings and by prea preachments in the student paper was wrong both in in principle princile le and in results |