we have received from our friebds would of themselves be suf
ficient proof that our efforts have been recognized and appre
ciated: Thus, at the end of our volume, as.the last leaf is about
to be turned, we come before you to thank you for your kindly
forbearance of our paltry work.
More than that, we wish to express our gratitude to all those
Who, by their contributions, have helped us in our task, and to
assure them that further kindnesses of the same nature will be
most heartily received. If you have been benefited by our ef
forts, we have been doubly so. True, there are an eccentric few
who have been unkind and fault-finding enough to make criti
cisms upon what they are pleased to term " atrocities in the line
of college fiction." But we are not the only ones whom this
random arrow has struck. There is not a college paper in the
land that has not, at some point in its career, made attempts in
this line. The majority are at present enlivening, by undergradu
ate fiction, journals which otherwise would be but dull and unin
teresting, and even at times not worth the reading. It is in this
procession that we are endeavoring to hold our place.
It may be that to the " old graduate " our efforts appear ex
tremely weak and nonsensical, yet there are those who are pleased
with them. We are fully aware that it is impossible to please all
of the people all of the time, but when we encounter the " chronic
kicker "we give up in despair. With such reflections and' cogi
tations for our own vindication, we lay down the editorial pen for
the last time and give the PRICE LANCE over to our successors,
and we are sure that they will guard its every interest and assert
its every privilege just as zealously as we have done.
THE attack recently made upon our College by the. Lancaster
New Era and the Philadelphia Inquirer is a surprising dis
play of intense ignorance of the least of the facts of the
Had the article not been copied we would not consider it
worth the space to even notice the 'remarks, for we could with
perfect impunity regard the Lancaster New Era in placid silence;
The Free Lance
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