insist upon such a standard of work upon the part of the student.
If university standards of thorough and exact work are in
sisted upon, as they are, we claim that the student is entitled to a
university’s freedom in the matter of attendance. The man of the
prep school stamp previously alluded to would doubtless flunk
out under such a regime, but that is a class of men which the col
lege can well afford to be rid of. The majority of State students
came here attracted by superior advantages for training along
technical lines, and a large percentage of' them are manifesting in
a most unmistakable way the sincerity of their motives in that
they are working their way through college, a line of action which
a man is not likely to undertake with the object of killing time.
The larger body of students here have just as high ideals, do work
which is in every way as conscientious and painstaking, and are
working toward goals fully as definite as any university student.
They are in every way as competent as any university man to
shoulder the responsibility of regulating their own class attend
ance, and the only effect in any wise undesirable, of adopting such
rules of attendance, would be to eliminate by reason of poor
grades, some few irresponsibles and weaklings whom the college
can well do without.
C. TI. BOMBERGER,
—At a recent meeting of the Athletic Association the following
officers were chosen for the ensuing year: Assistant Baseball
Manager, B. B. Stamm, ’O6; Baseball Marshal, M. A. Lauffer,
’o6: Baseball Directors, P. M. Rainey, ’O5; C. S. Forlcum, ’O5;
H. Cl. Mcllveen, ’O5; Asst. General Athletic Manager, IT. H.
Hollinger,- ’O5; General Athletic Marshal, J. J. Morgan, ’O5;
General Athletic Directors, J. F. Johnson, ’O5, FT. D. Easton, ’O5,
MISCELLANY.
R. I-I. I-I. AUNGST,
ALEX. HART.