With this issue another volume of the FREE LANCE is completed, and ere another month shall pass the old staff of Don Quixote's lance will be replaced by a new one. And so we, the Senior members of the old staff, come before you now for the last time before we take off our several ways to oblivion. It was with many misgivings that we shouldered the re sponsibilities a year ago, for they appeared really larger than they afterwards proved to be. But we then felt, as we still feel, that inasmuch as a college is rated in a degree among other colleges by its student publications, so we were placed under an obligation to at least maintain the standard which our predecessors had established. How well we have fulfilled that obligation, we leave for others to determine. If we have done well, we do not ask for praise; while if we have failed, we only ask for silence. Suffice to say we have done our best, and we hope you will, therefore, show us sonic consideration. In the first few issues of the volume, we followed in the time worn paths of the older editors, content if we could retrace their footsteps. But after a great deal of study and comparison of other college magazines, we sought to make a change, believing that improvement was possible. Here again we leave it to the judgement of others whether those changes have been "for better or for worse." We only hope that our ideas of improvement have not been too radical, or if radical then perfectly square, or at least not wholly imaginary. But say what you may, we will not .con cede anything that denies the fact that there was, and is yet, a chance for improvement, which we hope in time will be
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