nels which lead to the highest develop
ment of mankind. In the discourses of
such men no one should be more .inter
ested than the college student, for it is
he, of all men, who is to take a promi
nent part in the making of future his
tory. Let our students show that they
are alive to their needs by exerting
every effort (best represented in money)
in behalf of establishing here a perma
nent lecture course.
IN a speech (?) recently delivered by
Councilman John H. Fow, of Phila
delphia, we are “dished up” in the fol
lowing style to his hearers : “A useless
State Agricultural College where they
turn out dude farmers !” Thank you,
Mr. Fow, for referring to us in so com
plimentary a manner. Well can you
call us “us6less,” when it is your pur
pose to make us so. When one wishes
to destroy an institution he begins by
denouncing it, though truth be sacrified.
Please plug your “fog horn,” and don’t
disgrace the intelligence of the state
Democracy by objecting to the action
of a Republican governor in sanc
tioning state aid to a grossly neg
lected (not useless) state institution.
But you are, no doubt, possessed
of an unbiased mind and broad cul
ture, and have thoroughly posted your
self in the history of this institution (?)
as every true citizen of the State should.
Can’t we prevail on you to visit us ?
We fissure you that you would be re-
THE FREE LANCE.
ceivecl with such copious showers of hos
pitality as would obliterate from the
remotest recess of your fertile brain all
traces of the “farmer dude.” We have
not had a visitor yet who has not gone
away rejoicing.
THE views of college life held by
many young men are indeed pe
culiar if not absurd. Without a cane
rush, frequent tare-outs, and hazing,
college life is to them a dull monotony
hard to endure. They imagine that
college grounds and buildings are
premises upon which the civil officer
dares not tread, and thus, in this imag
ined freedom from the law, they often
commit most grievous deeds. Is it not
time that a higher and nobler view of
college life be inculcated ? Should not
young men who are preparing to be
come the leaders of human thought and
action cultivate a spirit of love and mu
tual concern, rather than a spirit of
egotistical bossism, which makes them
glory in their superior physical strength,
and laugh at the humiliation of their
fellow-workers
It is well enough for classes to
organize to further their respective in
terests, but when such organizations are
for the purpose of ignoring the rights
of others, they should be stopped. We
would say, away with the time-worn
idea that to become “a college student
of the proper stripe” one must become
fi ruffian, This age wants men, not