1896.]
Iv there is anything that attracts our admiration and holds our
undivided attention, during the winter session, it is the " Col
lege-man-air " assumed by the progressive and observant Fresh
man, who but a few weeks ago was a timid, unsalted, retiring
sort of an individual.
Three months of college life have wrought a wondrous change
in him.
When he entered college, he fully believed that stealing was a
crime; that a gentleman was a man of courteous manners, pure
speech and honorable actions; that fraternities were cherished
that there might be a further development of social and intel
lectual spirit.
He might have gone so far as to think that the college build
ings, with traditions and memories that departed students have
left upon them, were sacred or that the fair name of the college
was priceless and he who brought ill-fame upon it was a being to
be execrated.
But how changed his opinions and ideas have become in a short
time. Now, he knows that there are two kinds of stealing,
MALIN° and stealing. If he steals directly from his fellow stu
dent, by entering his room and carrying away some of his per
sonal effects, he is 'a thief and must be punished, but if he steals
from the college or, in other words, the damage deposit of the
students, " why—he. just swiped 'em, you know."
His ideas of what goes to make up a gentleman have changed.
He finds that a gentleman in the common acceptance of the word
is one who may " swipe," talk coarsely and need only keep up a
semblance of respectability. His conception of a college frater
nity has changed. Instead of being an organization solely for the
development of the social and intellectual side of man, the
source of friendship, love, sympathy and helpfulness, it has
degenerated into a mere " political clique."
Randolph has entered Drexel Institute, Phil'a., Pa.
W. H. H. Miller is attending Troy Polytechinc In-
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J. I. Reese is attending Shady Side Academy, Pitts-
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