University of the Pacific - Naranjado Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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Editorial. 'X' OR the lirst time in the history of THE Nixizixxjfxlao, its publication has fallen to the class to which it properly belongs. In institutions of our grade, the prevailing custom is to yield to the Senior Class the management of the College Paper, while the control of the Annual is included among the dnties of the junior. This year the double burden of editing both Pimnos and NARANJADO has rested upon the Class of Ninety-two. For one more year the Sanctum of THE PHAROS must be occupied by delegates from the same class, but THE N'ARANjADO, we hope, will continue in the line of college custom and hereafter be issued by the Junior Class. Nothing can be lost by the observance of college customs, so far as they are right. In fact, next to the grade of our curriculi and the ability of our professors, nothing tends so strongly to lift us above the level of the High School and insure for us the respect of our sister universities, as the proper recognition of the traditional customs that have existed in the best institu- tions almost from time immemorial. A healthy class spirit adds much to the general tone of college life. True, in the history of the past year, ne qzzzkz' rzimzlv has not been the motto of the classes g and when class spirit degener- ates to the wanton destruction of personal property, it is time to call a halt and begin over again. But our best knowledge comes by experience, and We shall begin the next year with clearer notions of the right and wrong methods of showing our allegiance to class. But let us not mourn too much over the mistakes of the past 5 for although many of us, in the heat of con- flict, may have done things for which we were afterwards sorry, yet the whole list of events in the history of the fztfzle bellum will be looked upon, We trust, next year or the year after, as powerful factors in working out the ultimate good of the University. Instead of suppressing the exuberence of class spirit, our aim should be merely to guide it into proper channels g then let it How on with current unrestrained. It cannot be denied that many college customs involve wrong principles, and when this is true our duty is plain. But the last generation has wit- nessed a marked advance, from an ethical point of view, in the almost com- plete eradication of hazing. i Another indication of a healthy growth in college sentiment may have been noticed by those who read the PHAROS exchanges. Several of these have reported the suspension of students who have sought unmerited laurels I3

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living in Santa Clara, feeble in health and advanced in age. Father Owen, as we are wont to call him, was an energetic, tireless man, who undertook anything to see it brought to an end. He was somewhat humorous at times and had an agreeable, nervous twinkle in his eye, which he used to good advantage, when relating a story. As is apparent, Father Owen's great work was in laying the foundations of Methodism on the Pacific Coast, where he labored with tireless zeal, exhaustless energy and unwavering faith, evidences of which are the large churches spread here and there over the Golden State, well organized Conferences, and finally but not least in im- portance, the University for which we are all so thankful. No man was more loyal to his church and his country, in the dark days of both, than Father Gwen. The monument reared over his body stands, a living testi- mony of the loving hands of those who knew him while living. He died, after giving thirty-two years of uninterrupted labor to the itinerant work. Such was the character of one of the founders of our University, a man who walked and talked with God. How wisely he laid the foundations of Methodism in our midst, let the prosperous state of the work to-day testify, the full worth of the work accomplished by those preaching tours up and down the coast eternity alone will reveal. I2

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by giving as their own the thoughts and words of some one else. U. P. has not been behind in this respect, though tl1e penalty has not been the same. Xl'e even heard, not long ago, of a President of a university who lifted bodily a large portion of his baccalaureate address. The student may be suspended, but what can we do with the President? Nothing can so dwarf our mental capacity for life as the habit of continually depending for our thoughts upon what we read and hear. The student injures himself no less when he depends upon the pencil marks in his book or his carefully prepared pony in the examination room. In a prominent Eastern college, more students have been sus- pended for using illegitimate means of passing than for all other causes combined. XYould it not be wise-but, though we may say what We please to the students concerning the maintainance of college precedent, who shall presume to advise the Faculty? XVe have not considered it necessary here to mention many of the events of the past yearg for such information may be gleaned from the following pages. XVe even l1esitated a long time before deciding to give a page of our valuable space to an article which will be read by so few of our subscribersg but precedent demands it, and we yield with all the grace possible. In regard to the present volume, we have little to say 5 for should we express an opinion each reader would trust his own judgment in preference to ours. And, should we say that the present issue is worthy of praise when the reader thinks it is not, we would only be adding to that list of grievances for which We must answer about Commencement time tprovided that we are to be foundjj ' In general, we have tried to keep our artist and contributors within the bounds indicated by Tillotson, who said, VVhere wit transgresseth decency, it degenerates into violence and in1piety. This is not saying that our jokes and cuts are not personal 5 for they are. Most of them are intended as mere pleasantry, but some as suggestions by which we hope some one will profit. XVith this volume of THE NARANJADO, the largest yet- published, Ninety-two sends greetings. I 14