yell yourselves hoarse. Yell anyway, no matter if Dickinson should make six touchdowns in succession. It is an excellent thing in man to make a noise in the world, saith the prophet. And, just in case anybody should ask you, remember that you’re a loyal State man, and that we have the best foot ball team in the State. If Dickinson scores on us ioi to o that won’t affect the matter in the least. There is a new change in the rules regulating attendance where by they now allow only one absence in each subject per week As might be expected, the change meets with but little favor from the student body, and in view of the small percentage of allowed absences which we receive as compared with other colleges, it certainly does seem to be an unnecessary and arbitrary action on the part of the faculty. We believe we are voicing the general student sentiment when we say that no faculty action for several years has been so suggestive of prep, school methods as has this one. The average undergrad, here is obstinate enough not to be able to understand why he can’t take his six per cent, of allowed absences when he pleases so long as he maintains a satisfactory class standing, and we may state that we can’t understand it either. However, the world do move, and we suppose our old ideals of the college man as a responsible being have fallen. One “State standard” gone to smash! Speaking of freshmen reminds us that there are two great duties the State freshman owes to his Alma Mater. First, not to forget that .he is a freshman; second, to support the Free Lance. The first of these may be dismissed as relatively unimportant, while we are tempted to devote several pages to the latter. Every freshman (this complex variable may be 'replaced by the simpler ones of soph., junior or senior) ought to subscribe to the Lance, and if he have literary ability, ought to support it with voluntary contributions. We members of the board scarcely know what that term “voluntary contribution” means, such is the scarcity of
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