southern islands. The Negritos, or "little blacks," of the in
terior districts, who are supposed to be descended from the
aboati l nal inhabitants and are of a race entirely different from the
Malay tribes, Mohammedan or Christian, are, though utter sav
ages,
,generally inclined to be peaceable. At last the idea among
some Americans that these tribes of Malays and blaCks, differing
widely in language, customs and religion, and with tribal feuds
among themselves for centuries, could have formed unaided a
stable government, has been abandoned ; and now under the care
Of the great free Republic of the West, whose entry into the arena
of world politics is the most significant event of the new century,
the Philippine archipelago is already advancing 'on the high road
to prosperity and self-government under free institutions.
FROM "THE COLLEGE STUDENT" TO "THE COLLEGE
MAN."
In the minds of many persons who have obtained their ideas of
"college life" mostly from reports, the transition expressed in the
above title will appear like passing from the ridiculous to the sub
lime. The supposed antithesis is so great that the metamorphosis
is regarded as more extreme than that from the larva to the but
terfly.
Unfortunately in many communities there is a basis of justifi
cation for such a view. Of the several hundred students in a col
lege some are sure to be thoughtless boys and to perform reckless
and extravagant feats, which become the subjects of common talk
of all other students and of their friends at home. Thus may one
person mar the good name of an institution which hundreds of
others may be thoughtfully and earnestly laboring to maintain.
It is much easier to tear clown than to build up. It should be re
membered by the reckless few that, while an extraordinarily de
plorable act makes the perpetrators conspicuous, it does not ren
der them important. While the name of the one sheep that went
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