the opportunity for these students to exercise and strengthen their
will power. Keep a man under strict rules and when he gets out
into the world he is as a child that has suddenly lost its ma. No
one can deny that the work which a man willingly does is
superior to that which he is forced to do. Let the student have
more liberties and give him a chance to train and develop his will
power as well as other parts of his brain.”
Here the dormitory philosopher stopped and began to puff
laboriously on his pipe, in order to resurrect the light which had
almost gone out. As one who had done same great deed, he
looked about the room to see what effect his talk had upon his
hearers.
“Pretty good speech,” broke in Dodger,
ever reads this column.”
In connection with the recent free and general discussion of the
rules regulating attendance, our attention has been directed to
our college life as compared with university life. A university
has been defined as composed of men devoted to special and
definite lines of study and research—a college, conversely, is com
posed of students receiving instruction in those branches of learn
ing which lie at the foundation of the several arts, pursuits and
professions of life. It is claimed by those in favor of strict at
tendance rules that this institution is essentially of the “college”
class; that the work done here is college work, not university
work. We have been told that the university man, howbeit that he
is allowed comparative freedom in the matter of attendance, does
not seek to evade his work whenever possible, but on the contrary
endeavors continually to crowd more work in. The university
man, it appears, is honestly devoted to his work, is working with
EDITORIAL.
“It’s a shame nobody