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school Inws, is intended to inclltdo nil tho
counties in ll:o stuto, and county superin
tondonts will see that the law makes it
thoir duty to attend.
S. H. TllOMP.sO.V,
Stnto Supt, Pub. Ins.
EDITORS TAHL13.
The Unircrniti lb port er criticises the
Studknt tor occupy ing so lnncli space
with conli ibulions, and our intention was
iininedialcly given lo'Iln make-up of the
Hoportcr, in which we expected to find a
rnrc.eoinbinntion of editorials, locals, per
sonals, exchange notes, with an occasion,
ul contribution their ideal of a college
paper. Well,. we were disappointed lor
we found one page of locals, one and
a half of editorials, and ni.r of abstract
prosy,
uninteresting
law
mutter, with
department. We would suggest that the
Jioporter practice what it preaches; still,
if it reaches the true end of a college
paper it .should not onlj chronicle the
events of the University, Inn it should be
a faithful exponent of the literary ability
and talents of the students The ambitious
lul of interesting facts concerning lltera.
tine and education. One may find in
ii nut shell, as it were, all tho important,
uselul and interesting events that Iran
spire in the world of letters, together with
many entertaining facts and a newsy do.
piirtmcnt devoted to the Stale. It has re
ceived many encomiums from the pi ess
of the Stale, all of which it rightly hut.
its. May the Lit. and lid. live long ami
prosper.
The High School, edited and published
by.J.F. McCartney, is a paper in which'''
egotism is the chief characteristic. Tine,
the paper has reached its tilth year, hut
that does not necessarily make it the first
paper of the West. Still tho High Scliool
can lay claim to much that is oxcellent,
especially the selections. Tho editor has
been contemplating Murk Twain, and
passes most terrible judgment upon him,
advising him, very kindly, to retire from
public life. Poor .Mark I how ho will talco
it to heart and weep even as he wept at the
grave of Adam. Although Mr. Editor
assumes so much knowledge- concerning
the management of a paper, lie evidently
does not understand the duties of ediior.
in chief, since he gives tho entire supervi-
editor-in-chief secnis fond of lame words
and in an cincrgciicv coins the motion ' si.n of the Sit dk.nt to the local editm
ions one, reasonubilitv He mixes up, (This muy be accounted for by the editor
indiscriminately, adjectives and advents being chief cook etc. of his paper, and
ill the modification of a erb. and violates .therefore he cannot be exnected to know
the simplest rules of syntax to such an , the d liferent duties that devolve upon dif-
oxtent that the article, which is a very
good one in its thought, is badly marled.
The Ibpurlor plainly shows, as we have
heard remarked by repiesentalives of the
University, that the students take no inter
est in the paper, there being home who
scarcely know of its existence. The od
itors should put more life in the paper,
which they can never do as long as they
continue to publish poems two pages long,
and fail in making each and every depart
mont interesting and up to the times,.
Tho literati I'ud a want, that lias long
boon fell, supj ed by Jlegont Fi field's
new papoi, Lit. and Ed. Xutcs. It is brim-
ferunt inembeis of the editorial stall.
The tndt uttt' Journal unt n wel
come visitor to our table, and wo enjoy
reading its well written articles and sensi
ble editorials. The local dopartmonl is
not as lively as is usually expected from a
wide awake local editor, for tlioro is no
school of any note but can furnish" mate
rials for three or four pages of interesting
items, while to this department tho stu
dent, following the bent of the human
mind, turns first, and ho should not bo
turned away hungry for some sauce to
iiven up the solid diet. The uuthor of
"Nature and the Human Mind" has u
