Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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V' M M , ,v......... ..,,.- X Lsenft v m eans. , CJZEPFESS L '- Editorials Another year has passed, another class is about to graduate, and another ORACLE has been published. The editorial board honestly feels that this ORACLE represents its best efforts, and is the best ORACLE that has ever been published. The board has tried to profit by the mistakes of previous boards, and next year we hope that the board will profit by our mistakes and turn out a book superior to this one. The finest thing about the past year has been the awakening of the Student Body. The Student Council has functioned in the past year as it has never functioned before. It created rules to control the Freshman Banquet, which had in the past been governed by unwritten and most unsatisfactory rules, rules that were so uncertain as to result in unsatis- factory banquets for the past three years, and claims of victory by both sides. The present rules worked exceedingly well, and resulted in having a definite and satisfactory decision this year. It also took over the man- agement of the Interfraternity Basketball League, paid all the old debts of the league, and closed the season with all bills paid, and a small surplus. This was a noteworthy accomplishment when compared with the results of other years. Another determined, but unsuccessful attempt was made to reform the present evil of fraternity rushing. Although the rules were not passed, five of the fraternities have signified their intention to postpone pledging next fall until the third Wednesday in October. The courage of the fraternities is to be commended and deserves success. If success does at- tend their efforts the inevitable result will be the abolition of the present cut-throat system, and it will be looked back upon as the most significant event of the past college year. Another reform the writer would like to see would be the abolition of Freshman Rules, other than, perhaps, the wearing of the Freshman Cap. During one's freshman year friends are made regardless of fraternity, and the spirit in the class is of the best. But after a squabble or two in sopho- more class meetings, over real or imagined discrimination- on the part of the members of one fraternity against the freshman of another, we find this friendly spirit becoming a bitterly antagonistic one. The bad spirit is not confined to the sophomore class, but spreads, and before college is hardly under way we find one fraternity group suspiciously 'hostile of another, and all over a few petty, foolish, childish rules. We can keep freshmen in their places without resorting to foolish rules that the fresh- men can hardly be blamed for breaking. The college as a wholehought to be able to impress upon freshmen their standing and place here. Must we continue to have these rules because other classes had them before us? If we feel the need of preserving tradition then let us keep Bloody Monday Night, but let us do away with those trouble breeders, Freshman Rules and Sophomore Razoos. The past year has not been overly successful in athletics. In football a team with championship possibilities failed to get going until the final game against Bates. Some stars will be lost to the team, but better breaks should result in a State Championship next year. Hockey was more suc- cessful than ever before, although we finished at the bottom. Once again Six