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10:3 TIIr: )h:TEOI!
"If thou Jw,·c col1cag11C>:, l'<'Spect the111; and rather call them "·ben they look not for it t!tau exrludc them ,,.hl·n they ha,·e reas•m to look to he railed.''
'·De not too sensible or too remembering of thy place in com·er:.::ation Lut let it rather Le said, ·\\"hen he sits in his place he is another man'/'
The staff of Tn£ )h:TEOn hereby announce that for next year the lcadc1·ship of TnE )lr::TEOJ! is entrusted to Spencer R. )fcCulloch, its prosperity to Hamilton Hans, and its reportorial excellence to Hardy C. Dillard, _\thletics; Haymond E. )IacDlain, Jottings; Harry H. \\"hirakcr,
Exchanges; and H. \\'hitc Decry, )[ctcnrites.
.All of the other offices, except the counselors. arc chosen by popular election. \\l10 will fill them, time alone will tell. Dut let it be deliberately by cool, indi,·idnal judf!mcm, not
llCcdlcssl:;· by the foolish cry of one boy. ~ b. !'!
Our school has made a good start-one that argnes well
towards an auspicious future--but (it scems a pir:· that this
bvl should mar such a comfnrting sen-
Read This Twice. tcncc!) that fntmc is not assmcd, nor
can it c,·er be assnred until we change.
There j,; svlllCthill"' \n'Oll"' with ns, 11ot iudi,·idnalh·. hc·.:nuse l:"' ~ t.
indiYidnally ·we are as go1ocl a set of Loy::; as e:au he ftltmd, hnt as a "·bole. \Yc lack thnt most Hcccssar:y clement to a school-CSJlrit de corps. In school-boy language it is called school spirir, but it com·c:·s a deeper mea11ing than the a,·cragc school boy attaches to that. OYerworkcd phrase, for esprit de corps is that spirit of s:·mpathy and Sl'lTice, that enthusiasm and de,·otiou, and that jealous regard for honor pCI'\'adillg a corps of persons. This means more than cheer-