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North Dakota lias shown its ignor
ance of tlie favorite college game, by at
tempting to make foot-hall playing a
misdemeanor.
Last week our esteemed contemporary
contained an article from an Eastern
exchange, counseling fraternity men to
so conduct themselves as not to cause
non-fraternity men to feel that fraternity
men are their superiors. The whole
thing was probably intended as a joko.
At any rate the Greeks' conduct has
never indicated that they, as yet, have
an indisputable claim to superiority.
While we should cherish and respect
the spirit of democracy in the university,
we should not let this feeling be the
harbinger of dishonest license. We are
all too apt to think because every one is
perfectly free and placed in the light of
his own manhood, that individually we
have no responsibility in the misdeeds of
others. This is a false and oftimes very
harmful view of things. How are peo
ple going to know how we stand and
what things we hold in respect if we do
not speak? How are we going to exert
an influence against disreputable things
if we allow them to be fostered before
our very eyes without even a look of dis
approval. This lethargy is more evident
in the case of cheating than in any thing
else. We believe it is wrong and deplore
its practice by a few in the university,
yet we do not frown it down as we should.
If the students, individually, would show
their supreme disgust that such action
merits, class cheating we believe would
soon become a thing of the past. We all
feel disgusted with the one who can not
say no," even though he is a boy, yet
we tolerate this unmanly cribbing of tin
few without even shaking the head
in disrespect. There are only a fev
in the university who do this kind of
work and let us show this few in what
supreme contempt we hold their action.
If there is a student in the university
who is misinterpreting the meaning of
higher education, it is that one who is so
engrossed in his studies as to forget
everything else. Our principal motive
in coming to college is to study, but if
we confine that to the study of books
alone we are falling far short of our op
portunities. If there is any period in
our life when energy and industry are
demanded, it is while kq are in college,
but when we exert these tendencies in a
mechanical way in one direction only, we
are placing ourselves in .scholastic jeop
ardy. It will not be the number of his
torical dates we learn, or the quantity of
Greek we can read that will help the
world, or us for that matter. We come
here to acquire training to get our
mental machinery in working condition.
Such attainment will come as well through
the external attributes of college life as
