pitcher from the University in all their playing
with State College, notwithstanding they lost
every game previous to last season.
In the last number of the FREE LANCE we
withstood considerable of pressure from the one
hundred and seventy-five students of our col
lege in refraining from the expression of the
unanimous sentiment toward Bucknell. This
unanimous sentiment, together with the fact
that the Mirror has taken the initiative, and
has employed offensive epithets, vulgar insinua
tions, and false statements, has called forth this
full review of the matter. We have con
scientiously tried to confine ourselves strictly
within the limits of facts. Furthermore, we de
cline any further controversy, holding such
controversies in general to be odious, though we
feel justified in the above exposition at the de
mand of fellow students, knowing that we can
not do violence to inter-collegiate relations
strained in every part by the Mirror and the
treatment received at the hands of "Bucknell
athletes." •
FRATERNITIES have rooted themselves
in our midst. Already we feel their good
and bad influences. That there are peculiar
benefits belonging to fraternity life no one can
intelligently deny. That there is also much
harm to be guarded against and some evil
which necessarily comes remains true. One
of the evils which necessarily comes is the un
kindly feeling generated in some instances by
what has been called fraternity caste. Fra
ternity bias has been charged in some close
circles, perhaps sonic outside of any fraternity,
to the management of the FREE LANCE, none
would be more ready to deprecate such a state
of affairs than we. It will be a sad day for the
FREE LANCE when such a disposition creeps
in among the controling members of the staff.
We can support no more than one paper; let
us stand by that one in the name of the united
college. Fellow students, we write thus not
because any defection now threatens the FREE
THE FREE LANCE.
LANCE, but because foresight and discretion
are necessary in order to avoid future evil, and
we gladly and sincerely pledge ourselves to a
policy in the present staff which knows no fra
ternity. He who carries such considerations
into the FREE LANCE staff has wholly mistaken
his mission. Within the staff our position is
well enough understood; we desire to forestall
any misunderstanding outside.
ATHING "devoutly to be wished for" at
this place is a course of lectures. Few
places we trow arc less favored in this respect
than this college. There is no provision made
for popular lecturers or speakers by the college,
Not only are the students left to provide this
counterpart of their' course for themselves, but
the surrounding circumstances appear to forbid
any such undertaking. The financial guarantee
will not warrant the employment of a popular
lecturer of high reputation. It is perhaps pos.
sible, however, that something might be done
to improve upon the present condition. We
suggest that each class, college and prepara
tory, call a meeting and choose one member to
act upon a committee of six thus representing
the whole body of students in general and each
class in particular. Let this committee go to
work in earnest to devise some scheme having
for its object public entertainments of a literary.
character for next term. Has not the presi
dent of each class interest enough in this mat
ter to inaugurate the movement? Let us see
whether there be no escape from a whole term
destitute of anything of the above named char
acter which college students expect.
IT seems to be an inherent part of some per
sons' nature to destroy public property.
The fact that a thing does not belong to any
separate individual seems to be an excuse for
some persons to destroy it. Colleges particu
larly have to contend with this matter. One
would think that a body of young men seeking