DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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tics are slowly strangling The lJel auw. themost valuable of all our college en- terprises. VVhere is a student council to rescue our paper from this shameful end? The president justly demands, lf so-and-so be the sentiment of the student body why has it not been expressed to mc? lleeause there is no council to convey the sentiment of the student' body. We would advise that this organization be revived and that its members be chosen in the general annual elections of the student body rather than by classes. , llefore going far in this editorial we wish to pause and pay tribute to the faithfulness of Vice-l'resident Gobin. He is. in every sense of t-he word, a true veteran in the cause of the old school. lt was he who stood at the helm when the waves of adversity rolled highest. and it was his hand which held a steady and unswerving course until a more friendly port was reached. Few Universities have a Student llody just like ours. ln spite of its constantly recurring phases of fraternity influence. and non-fraternity inlluenee, spikes, fac- tions, politics, athletics, class scraps and late wars, our student life maintains a most persistent equilibrium. Sometimes a student begins to feel that the old time Del'auw Spiritu has been laid away in the College Cemetery beside the Law School and School of 'l'heolog3'- or the Old Literary Society, or the various other realities, of former days, which lived, moved and had their being upon this campus. lint before the student has had time to don the proper garb of mourning. he is brought to with a jolt and Del'auw entlmsiasm breaks forth anew from some unlooked-for channel. VVe were sorry to see the Class Scrap have to go. lt was sent to thc cemetery and can scarcely be said to have died a natural death. VVe must admit that its own violent nature, exhibited during the last year of its existence, brought on its exe- cution. llut reforms might have been instituted. VVith the bones of the class scrap we have interred a mighty means for bringing together into closer companionship, and more congenial association, men of different fraternities. men of different fac- tions, fraternity men and non-fraternity men. Our athletics have, without doubt, seen a new era. The total score in our col- umn has not been so overwhelming, but after all, the victory has been ours. 'Ilut here are some reforms which yet must and will come. To many students the substantiated rumor that Professor Brnmbaugh is going from us this year brings keen regret and disappointment. The least we can say is, that in so brief a space of time, no one has served our University in a more com- mendable and earnest manner. To the students concerned in this department no 17

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ur ditoria! lt has been two years since a junior llook has gone out to tell the story of our college life. Yes, a junior llook can relate the routine of college life as nothing' else can. llecause, being juniors, we are not domineered by the sophisticated ideas and conceptions of Freshmen and Sophomore days: nor, on the other hand, are our visions clouded by future projects and prospects which already have begun to carry the day-dreams of our Senior associates far beyond the walls of our Alma lVl'ater. 'l'he relations between the student body and the administration have in most instances been happy and gratifying. ln some- few cases, perhaps, there have been evidences of friction. A very apparent illustration was had in what our president has been pleased to call the late war. or the bolting' of classes. which occurred immediately prior to the 'l'lianksg'iving recess. To scores of sincere students the enforcement of the administration's policy on this occasion worked a grievous hardship. To the administration the stand taken by the students assumed the form and painfulness of a wound or inju1'y. lt is fair to say that too much intensity was created on both sides. VVe feel'that the serious nature of the whole affair might have been averted had the students apprised themselves of an instrument which in theory was created for just such times of disagreement and variance of opinion. We refer to the student council. The students' appeal should first have been di- rected to this organization, for it at any and all times may legally claim the atten- tio11 and deliberation of the administration. Nobody would presume that the judg- ment of one is always infallible. Moreover, we believe the president would be pleased to geet a full-grown, active student council, and would gladly recognize it as an essential factor in our student life. This organization exists practically in name only. We daresay that there are students who are not aware of the fact that their classes have elected them to the position of student councilmen. When organizations cease to exercise their functioning powers they are in reality dead to their chief purpose. We are now confronted with the ery that poli- 16

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news could be more joyful than to learn that Professor llrumbangh had been retained. 3 The evangelistic eitorts of l'resident llughes and Doctor l-iendcrson, during February, were almost remarkable in their results. Indeed, we feel that the results now discernible are but the beginnings of grander things for future years. VVith the cabinets of the two Christian Associations we believe that these societies and not fraternities should regulate the social status of the University. To this period also belongs the full realization of the Carnegie Library lfund and the completion of the Campbell Sustaining liund. In these we surely have great cause to rejoice. Iloth to those who have labored so valiantly, and to those who have so grandly contributed toward the perfection of these enterprises we would express profounder appreciation than may be spelled out in these few words. Now the words of this editorial are without doubt the most serious words which we shall have said throughout all this little book. We set ourselves to this task with but two requisites in mind: that this article should be serious but fair to all concerned. lf we had filled it with gushing things you would have denounced it and called it not tit for an editorial. 'l'hings which are of wit. and perhaps more pleasing, we have placed in succeeding pages. Judge not Our lloolc entire from any part. Its message extends from cover to cover, and comes from hearts which ardently love the old school, and from hands which are already reaping a bountiful heritage from the living world and past traditions of Del'atiw. lts message is from a class which from the first has been peculiarly active and ever appreciative. It is the true foreword of a class with an unsurpassed record, and that record is yet but barely begun. To whom This Hook comes, we greet you in the princcly Spirit of The Class of 'o8. Q in-I '14 neu .Q ry' J. +'- v L. 1 V ' - V 1:-:I li. LQ M T T I v 'O' l.'.l ... . - 9 M 'nl K4 um I E yy 18