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THIS UN IVERS I TY JOURNAL , WASHINGTON , D. C., JANUARY 15-2, 1904.
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OFFICERS :
C H A R UTSS A. MANNS . ’04.
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that heterogeneity is not favorable to order, but presents
a precarious condition which may at any moment bring
the name of the institution within the toils of the law ;
an event which would be a serious impediment to the
progress of the race.
There are laws and principles, but these must have
their exceptions. There are numerous situations of evi]
in which we must choose the lesser of two. These are
the conditions which now confront us. When the Ath
letic Association, the Council of Upper Classmen and like
organizations, the activities of which herald the fame
of the University, are found with depleted treasuries,
to hinder them from devising the above stated means
for acquiring the necessary cash, would show a want of
appreciation of their endeavors to place the University
high in the scale of athletic and social intelligence.
Therefore we applaud the decision of the authori
ties, to examine and decide each case in proportion to
its importance and necessity, thereby prohibiting any
and every body from employing unlimited freedom in
carrying on the public dance.
TH E S T U D E N T S ' OBL IGAT IONS .
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Students and Alumni o f the University are invited to contribute.
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PUB L I C DANCES .
’Tis pleasing to listen to the sweet strains of music
as one glides gracefully o ’er a well-waxed floor, with a
smiling maiden enfolded in one’s fond embrace, but
when reason discourses upon the probability of injury to
the fair name of an honored institution, those mellow
tones become a funeral dirge which precedes that honor
to a premature grave.
Our attention lias been called to the fact that the
authorities have placed restrictions upon the holding of
public dances by classes. These restrictions meet the
unqualified approval of the Journal for the following
reasons : If this practice be allowed to continue the
time which should be spent in study would be devoted to
frolic and dancing, and that would defeat the purpose
for which the University was established.
Secondly, these public dances, being the result of a
selfish need for finance, are not likely to differentiate
seriously between quantity and quality, with a preference
for the latter, but as quantity of finance is the objective
stimulus, it is fair to suppose that they will seek quantity
at the expense of quality. And last, but not least, the
h o n o r o f
the institution is at stake, for when these affairs
take place, if one foreign element enter the compound,
Those who read the Alumni Notes in the last issue,
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must have been filled with a feeling of admiration and
great joy, for we consider it a roll of success and honor.
llut suppose it had been an expression of failure and
dishonor, the least that might be said is that it would
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have aroused a feeling equal in intensity but opposite in
;kind. So it follows that a peculiar relationship exists
between the University and its graduates, such as renders
inseparable from one the honor or dishonor of the other.
In view of that fact, it is evident that when we
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place ourselves under the fostering care of the University
our obligations increase ; we are not only responsible to
iour individual selves for our personal action, but having
voluntarily broadened our social selves we have increased
our obligation. Consequently, it is well to observe that
oft repeated caution, *’Oh, what a tangled web we weave
when first we pratice to deceive.” To meet these obli
gations it is not necessary to conceal defects of character
with apparent intelligence, but cause those defects to
be abolished by that intelligence. Although we may
appear to deceive the world and even our immediate
contemporaries.
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still views in all its completeness the
deplorable condition of an immoral character.
And
what is more, this Self at sometime will overcome e x
ternal pressure and in all its vileness assert itself. Then
it will appear that all efforts spent in dissimulating are
but wasted energy and that it is far better to recognize
and perform one’s obligations than to deceive.
We are glad to see T
he
H
o w a r d
S
t a n d a r d
,
the
President’s paper’ again in operation and hope for it the
realization of much material good. The first issue gives
evidence of unusual activity in the acquiring of finance
1and friends, and expresses a desire for the accomplisli-
!ment of great things.