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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