mense amount of good otherwise. To
acquiesce to the opinion of every man
that talks to you is almost equivalent to
saying that you have no mind of your
own. Take a firm stand and always
endeavor to hold your position.
THE Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation is becoming stronger and
stronger in the institution at present.
There was a time when the num
ber of members did not exceed sev
en, and little or no interest was
shown in the meetings. But the num
ber seemed to increase gradually, and
about one week ago the number of ac
tive members was about twenty. The
revival meetings held during last week
have added about eighteen new names
to this list and the prospects are good
for this week. The Association has not
been in such a flourishing condition for
some fourteen years, and there seems
to be no end of the good prospects,
IT is with a sense of regret and yet of
relief that we lay aside our edito
rial pens. We have a sense of regret,
because we feel that our experience as
editors could be greatly enlarged by the
continuation of our editorship. • Yet we
feel relieved because the time of study
has suffered encroachment quite a num
ber of times because of the time taken
for the collection and preparation of
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material for our paper. Considering
This, we would suggest to the incoming
staff that they petition the faculty to ex
cuse all editors from essay work during
their term of office. Certainly this is
of 'equal if not greater benefit to the
student than . essay work would be.
This is merely a suggestion. And now
in closing this 'editorial we have the best
wishes for THE. FREE LANCE and the
new staff.
OWING to the increased number of
students in attendance at this col
lege the number of rhetorical divisions
has been changed from four to five.
But it seems that even this change did
not do away with the difficulty experi
enced, and it was finally decided by
motion of the faculty that the Junior
and Senior classes should be excused
from rhetorical exercises for the re
mainder of the collge year. It is but
a fair conclusion we will have more .stu
dents next year than we have this, and,
besides, the professors should not be
slighted by the omission of their instruc
tive lectures, as these lectures were not
only a very agreeable change from the
hum-drum rhetorical performance, but
were a source of much information to
the students. At . the ending of the
college year a permanent 'arrangement
will be made and this arrangement, we'
hope, will be the adoption of the pres
ent plan. ,
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Min