Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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12 THE COLBY ORACLE 1911 The Oracle Association OFFICERS Prcsidezif ., ........... ...Ismc 1'TIGGINBO'l'IAIAM, ,II ff-,.m5,,,.C,,U .'.'l'HoMAs SCOTT GRINDLE, ,I 5'afrcinry..4 ..l3I.MER I'IoImc12 HUSSEY, '13 A,-f Edffg,-A U ...NIAIILON TURNER 1'IILL, ,12 The Oracle Board Editor-in-Chief ISAAC HIc3scINBo'I'IfI,x M, 'I I Business Manager TI-IOMAS SCOTT GRINDLE, ,I2 Assistant Business Manager ELMIQR IIORACE I-IUSSEY, '13 Art Editor lVlAl'II.ON TURNEII I-IILI., yl2 Associate Editors DELBER W,LxI.r..xct1s CI..xIz14, 'II RICIIAIQII AUSTIN HlxRI,ow, .12 l,15S'I'I5R .LXMBROSE IQEYIESI KIILDRIED RIXI.PI-I, '12 EIIWARD EININ WRSIIBLIIQN, ,IZ 1Il.xURIc12 EDVVIN Loim, ,IZ I-Ir.LIIxN NIAE CARLL, ,l2 E'1'IeIEL GII.I1xirRIcIQ, 'I2 EMMA LoUIs13 CLARKI2, F12 April I3 Reinforcemeilts zlrrivel Profs. still have lhe advantage. 'I

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Se' 21 tl ? FQ -H ' , H, . 4 A X ON 'lgliiirliii ' C ?i ', I 3 A ' ' v' Lrtei'l+ , ' f ' ' ' .X - . i 4 tif i f 17? I V., ' 'uf' 2 C ,,,, ,av F X I af ar? is '-1 fn - 6? :iffy X fe f C BDITO IALS J C 4-l 57 X QLZWAX XX4 4:2469 3'-4' 'Nix We believe that the time has come when it would be for the best interest of the college as a whole to take the ORACLE out of the hands of the fraternities and make it a more representative college publication. Time was when nearly every student at Colby was a member of a fraternity, but this is changing, and we all welcome the advent of a strong non-frat element. Even if the ORACLE should be managed as now, backed by the fraternities, we believe that some arrangement should be made whereby non-fraternity students would be repre- sented on the Editorial Board. But, 'better even than that, would be the plan to make the ORACLE a Junior Class publication. This would give the whole Senior year for the .settlement of all business matters. If it is true that we are to have a new dormitory at Colby, there could be no better time to enact a new rule concerning the taking of men into the frater- nities. There is no denying that many times men are initiated who prove ere long that they are not capable of doing college work. Wfould it not be wise to have a certain definite scholarship requirement insisted upon by the College? The plan that is meeting with success in so many of the colleges and universities makes one semester's work, of at least a passing grade, necessary before a student can be initiated into a fraternity. This protects the fraternity, and at the same time gets the students into the habit of .studying Under present conditions it would be practically impossible to put such a rule into effect, but with a new dormitory it could be very easily made practicable. A April I4 E K convenes at Champaign, Ill. C-olby is proud of her offspring.