Baltimore City College - Green Bag Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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OUR HONORARY PRESIDENT.

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The Board of Editors. ! Editor-in-Chief. JAMES GRANVILLE PHILLIPS. BUSINESS MANAGERS. FRANCIS BLACKFORD ADAMS. HARWELL WATERS THOMAS. FITZHUGH JAMES DODSON. EVAN DONOVAN HANS. WILLIAM HENRY DOYLE. WALTER HENRY HUFF. WILLIAM RICKERT GLEN. ARTHUR RUSSEL KNIPP. STANLEY MEADE REYNOLDS. ART EDITORS. WILLIAM KENNETH ERDMAN. DANIEL SACKERMAN. 7

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A Word to the Wise. advice, NE might be tempted to say, after a cursory examination of college year-books, that the place of the teacher in these publications resembles very closely that of Polonius when Hamlet reports him “At supper; not where he eats, but where he is eaten.” And it is not, I think, an absolutely -g settled question what his functions are when he enters their columns as a contributor. I suppose $Ait is perfectly legitimate for him to occupy upon this ,as upon almost all other occasions, the natural and customary atititude of giver of advice, to rehearse in his most professional manner the elementary but fundamental principles upon which future honorable and successful careers are to be based. This is sufficiently conventional to satisfy the most exacting, and it has the additional advantage of being economical. For there is no commodity of which the average teacher has a more abundant supply than he shares that possession with the rest of the race ; and there is nothing which the average graduate needs less; so that the capital of the one is left practically unimpaired, while the sense of obligation of the other is not inconveniently oppressive. It may be, too, a sense of duty dictates the utterance of a few parting words of wisdom, and a certain unwillingness to occupy other than a strictly dignified attitude when old relations are to be changed, must be confessed. Some considerations, however may be urged why a departure from this traditional treatment might be tolerated. It appears to me that the character of the book itself would seem to justify such a departure. A college year- book is vitally and essentially a students’ production. Within it, matters which take their interest entirely from the associations and relations of college life, surveyed from the students’ point of view, are portrayed and discussed ; there is the local smack of person and place which gives delicious relish to intimates and participants, but is “flat, stale and unprofitable,” to the rest of the world. Coupled with this, a certain latitude, really a considerable license, is to be taken for granted. Criticism is a matter of course, and all foibles, wherever found, are legitimate material. For once the student holds his mirror up to nature, and if the reflection seems at times a trifle distorted, it is the squint of a merry, fun-loving nature that is responsible for what may look extravagant and uncouth. There is no real bitterness in the satire, whatever maturer opinion may judge regarding the taste of its expression. Here is 9