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