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THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
The Students Journal
MID-SUMMER EDITION. 194.
BOARD OF EDITORS.
FRANK H. MOORE, '94...Editor
ROLLIN E. BLACKMAN, '94...Locals
ARTHUR L. CORBIN, '94...Literary
JAMES V. MAY, '94...Athletics and Exchanges
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
DANIEL H. SPENCER, 93. FRANK H. MOORE.
The stock of the STUDENTS JOURNAL Company consists of non-transferable one dollar shares. Any student instructor or employee of the University may hold one and only one share.
As THE STUDENTS JOURNAL is a newspaper we have simply endeavored, in this Mid-Summer issue, to give you the news about the University, the professors, and students. The University is prospering, and the STUDENTS JOURNAL as well, and both are ready to welcome you on your return in September.
The Athletic Association, this Summer, has published a complete record of athletics at the University. The history of many other organizations and events, if well written up, would be very entertaining, and the work should be done as soon as possible, as early records are incomplete and some have already been lost. Why can not the college papers do some of this work? A history of college journalism would be a good beginning, and at the present time would be very interesting and suggestive.
In the second story of the Spooner Library building is a fine large hall. Many uses will be found for it; but we believe, none more worthy or appropriate than the one here suggested. We hope that this hall, at least twice each week, will be taxed to its utmost capacity to accommodate those in attendance at the meetings of Literary Societies and Debating Clubs. No more convenient meeting place could be found than this hall, since it gives easy access to the library, and surely
no more appropriate and helpful organizations than these can exist among college students. The good work done in the Spring term of 94 must not have been in vain. Each year our Literary Societies and Debating Clubs must grow stronger and better.
ADVICE to new students; yes, there is a great deal that might be given, but that which is most important and is most seldom followed, is "look before you leap." If you are asked to join a fraternity, find out what a fraternity is, and what good, if any, it will do you to be a member. In the same way the student should closely examine into every organization and enterprise that proposes to take some of his time and attention. Every student has a certain amount of time that he can, with profit, devote to other things than his class room work. The measure of his success in college will, to a great extent, depend upon the way in which he spends this time. A sickly man by judicious athletic training may come from school strong and well at the end of his four years' course, the awkward country youth may become a polished speaker. Each student can find that in which he is most deficient, and to a considerable extent remedy his defects by judicious work. He can come from college with a full, well-rounded development. Yet many students, although so much depends upon their decision, in the first few days of their college life enter organizations that must, to a large extent, determine the disposal of their time during their whole college course. They form companionships that have enormous influence on their own character as well as on their college work. It seems to us that when so much is at stake, a man with even a moderate amount of prudence and good sense, will wait until he knows fully the consequences of the steps he takes. By so doing he will ensure the success of his college life. Considering the importance of the matter, the condition that must be observed to avoid bad consequences does not seem to be very burdensome. All that is necessary is to go slow, to look before you leap.