R. R.
Letters from Trinity’s Alumni are invited. If you would like to hear from a college friend of days long gone by, a few lines in the Archive might reach his eye.
Editorials.
J. S. BASSETT, Hesperian, } Editors.
G. N. RAPER, Columbian, }
This is an age of steam and electricity, of specialties and of cranks. There are many unjustly called cranky by those unable to appreciate enthusiasm and persistent effort, but there is a tendency among too many men of the present age to neglect everything except that and that alone which pertains to one narrow subject. This tendency is becoming more prevalent, especially among American students. A man can make a better success in a special line of work, provided he has made a deep and broad foundation upon which to place his desired vocation in life. But how can a man be a scientific investigator of the wings of bugs without a knowledge of bugs, or a successful geologist without a knowledge of Botany and Zoölogy?
Why do boys spend so much money for cigarettes? Some do this to gratify their appetite for smoking paper, others for the illustrations of art found within the packages. It is contrary to every idea of decency and morality to strive to lead boys into the gratification of an appetite, which is, to say the least, useless, by appealing to one far more