failures. That is the promise held out for him to strive for. That is the bounteous reward given when it is clone. Is not that a brilliant prospect? Is not that a simple task to offer a student? Is not that an ample reward for his labor? Well, perhaps—but—it might be better. But why and how? Is the College magazine worthy of best support? Yes, it is woridiy of the best possible support. For if rightly conducted a magazine is of great worth to its college in many ways. As a part of the curriculum it offers opportunities for training in one of the widest fields of modern work. As it circulates among thestudents it becomes a medium for the expression of the student ideas on impor tant matters of the college life. It thus becomes a great factor in the arousing and moulding of college sentiment, and may influence the faculty to the consideration of some question under debate. As it reaches the alumni it becomes the bond which links the past to the present, keeping- them in touch with their Alma Mater and witheachother. And as it goes outside it becomes the highest exponent of the college, of the students, and of the work—a higher exponent even than athletics. If you do not believe this read carefully the magazine of some other college, and see if you do not form ail idea of that college immediatlely which no athletic achieve ment can greatly chang-e. Why? Because men can become ataletes without being scholarly men at all. Not that we would do away with athletics—because they bring the college before many people who would seldom hear of it otherwise, but where the college magazine comes before the stranger it is positively of more inHuence on his opinion than the col lege athletic achievements are. Is not the College magazine, therefore, worth of hearty support? Is it not worthy and also needful of better sup port that the present careless one? Most assuredly, It could and should be helped in many ways.
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