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NO. 8. EDITORIALS. 471 Vh'i primary school because the parents bo liovoit is for its best good, it is not well for one to enter upon u collegiate course, the higher ami more finished stage of ed ucation, until he has arrived at an age when he can appreciate It adequately. THE "STUDENT" AND THE UNIVERSITY. The criticism made by one of Nobras ka's leading journals upon the previous number of the Student induces us to de ll ue again our position in connection witli the University. Trained as students we have ever been taught to heed a just and fair criticism base dupon established facts, and to prof, it thereby. But when charged with being I ho ''mouth-pieco" of the Regents and Faculty, aim Hi at we owe our existence to public funds, we feel It a duty to explain For from such conspicuous misrepre sentations we tind little to heed and less by which to profit. Such charges, when thrown promiscuously, arc double edged weapons Unit are death to friend and foe If the Student has been the "mouth piece" of the Faculty and Regents, one would naturally expect to find in its col. umns, sentiments dictated by them. Such an accusation oannot justly be made against it. If it has praised any department of the institution, it has done so with a due sense of just appreciation. If it lias criti cised, it has criticised freely according to that standard which lias been for the best interest of the institution. There are to-day honorable citizens, who, as the first students of the Univers ity subscribed the means for establishing the Student. Thus organised independent of aid from the University, it was strictly an enter prise of the stiutents. And it was with pride that the student could point to his college journal, as the result of his labor alone. Hero he found an opportunity for literory culture, and the expression of his jown views to the public. For seven years the student has pursued this same independent course, at all times strong to represent the sentiments of the students, and tiic best interests of the institution at largo. And this same course it must ever pursue as long as it holds its head among collogo journals. And so long as it is guided within the bounds of reason and truth, we hope the authorities of the University will never find it necessary to interfere in its manage mont. The Student then has ever been far trom being the "mouth-piece" of any one department of the institution exclu sively. When it was found that tho Student was destined to be a permanent enterprise with the students, and that it was doing more for advertising tho institution than any other method, assistance was granted it, by tho Univelsity; and when consid ered as a business matter, tiiat assistance was, in reality, only a just remuneration for its services, and it can only bo a self ish man who would raise his voice against such an appropriation. Wo only wish that all appropriations of govern ment could bo made as advantageously and honestly as the little assistance re numeration that the student has re ceived from the University fund. With this explanation of charges involved in criticism, we rest content in tho belief that as students we still possess in our college journal a free speech, and a re spectablo appearance that is independent of all assistance that has not been honor ably merited. THE LICENSE OK COLLEGE JOURNALISM There is a time after a sudden rcvolu tion in society when the advocate of re form lays aside his armor, and glancoa buck over his career to test tho strength of the monument ho has reared, and to see that it suits public tastes. So in col lego journalism, there aro times when it is well to examine tho material of its structure and the basis upon which it restsi that its growth may not bo too rank and its power aggressive. ?:i t.i . m iAd
