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.