of the Big Four something very serious to think
about.
Give us the schedule, and the team will be
forthcoming that will rise to the emergency and
fill out that schedule in a manner entirely credita
ble to our Alma Mater. It would not win all the
games j but, with the encouragement of some
thing to strive for all through the season, it would
prove to be the best team that ever issued from
our mountain fastnesses, and would have every
reason to be proud of our boys. W. A. S.
CASUS CONSCIENTIAE.
From time to time the Lance has had communi
cations asking for information or instructionon dif
erent points, but time and space have heretofore
forbade the answering of them through our col
umns. Now however that the opportunity has been
found, we are only too glad to comply with the
requests and hope that satisfaction may be given
in every case.
X am a student of average ability, but have always been a
hard, worker, conscientiously performing any task assigned
me. Last term X was unjustly given a condition, and I
would like to know whether I should dislike the professor
who has thus misused me 7
I should say decidedly that you should not.
Have you not learned that “whom the Lord lov
eth he chasteneth,” and although we hardly put
the professor on the same level, yet the rule will
apply. Beyond a doubt, it gives him as much
pain to flunk you as it does fcryou to receive the
flunk, although, in the end, you are the one who
has to pay the doctor’s bill. Avoid all irreverent
and uncomplimentary remarks concerning him as
such a course of action is liable to cause another
difference of opinion as to grades. Use all
means possible to heal the breath, and if neces
sary, set up the cigars to him, or ask him out to
dinner.
Wlmt light matter In the way of novels and deteotlvp
stories would you recommend a Senior to read as af
fording a change of work ?
The Irishman is credited with saying that if
there was anything he liked better than “praties”
THE FREE LANCE.
it was more “praties.” The only.change of work
needed by a Senior is more work. He should
carefully avoid all “train” novels and Nick Car
ter stories. His best amusement should be de
ciphering the multifarious views as advanced by
Peabody in Thermo, Johnson in Structures, Bod
mer in Hydraulic Motors, and Remsen in Theo
retical Chemistry. For a slight diversion peruse
Church, Carpenter,-Wellington, Jackson, and Un
win.
I am a student in the second yearof my oollegiate courso
Should I leave oollege to aceept a lucrative position with
the most noted I’unoh and J udy show on this side of the
Atlantic 7
Most emphatically no. You evidently fail to
recognize a “snap” when you have the opportu
nity. We not onlyadvise you not to accept this
position, but to remain in the Sophomore, or any
other class on that side of graduation, as long as
your paternal ancestor supplies you with lucre.
Is It proper for a young man In college to feel ill, and to
absent himself from an unusually hard reeitation just be
cause It is dlffleult7
Assuredly. Never fail to take advantage of
such opportunities. The records of the Bureau of
Industrial Statistics show that the grades of the
students afflicted with this blessing are invariably
above those of their unfortunate colleagues,
and there is no record to show where a student
in this precarious state of health ever flunked.
Cultivate all such weaknesses.
Is it eonduclve to the final success of a young man in col.
lege, to become engaged while an undergraduate?
This is a very difficult question to handle, as
much depends on the temperment of the two peo
ple involved. While I realize the useful influ
ence of man’s helpmate in some walks of life, yet
I would advise no young man to get tied up while
in college. If your fiance lives near the institu
tion then there are certain advantages which off
set the inconveniences, but otherwise it is a mere
waste of railroad . fare and postage. If you. feel
that you must become engaged, try to stave it off
until the last term of your Senior year.
Would it be proper for mo to take a 00-ed. Into Corrigan’s
oyster saloon, late In the evening, without a chaperone 7
If you have only fifty cents at your disposal, it