NO. 8.
EDITORIALS.
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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.
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