We begin our new task bv asking for the support and
cooperation of the College, the alumni, and the undergradu
ate students. Please remember that the Lance is published
by the student body and not by the staff of that we
shall be very glad for any literary contribution whether
published or not; that we need your financial support; and
if you have any criticism of the College Magazine or of col
lege matters in general, we shall be pleased to have you sub
mit it to us. Let us see if we cannot'bring the College
Magazine up on a level with our athletic achievements, and
with the other magazines of other colleges.
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THE COLLEGE AND ITS MAGAZINE.
Just at this time when a new editorial board takes
charge of the Free Lance, and when the Lance itself is in
very distressing straits, a word in its behalf by an Alumnus,
who was at one time Editor of it, might not be out of place.
The Lance is in straits. And for what reason is it so?
In a word—a brief, plain word—it is because of the lack of
literary support, because of the lack of financial support,
and more than either, or even both, of these, it is because
6f the lack of care and energy on the part of the class who
should have maintained it, but refused to do it; and of the
board who then assumed to do it, but did not successfully.
These are hard but plain facts.
But there are reasons more potent and far-reaching than
these which are not so apparent, and which are therefor
known by but few and considered by even less—considered
in truth only by those upon whom the burden of the paper’s
publication falls. And in the need and propriety of bring
ing these before the consideration of the College people in
general lies the excuse for the appearance of this article.
“The College and Its Magazine,” thereby implying
the relations that exist between them, i. e. the relations of