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Show The ChronicleHE Chronicle has been continued this year as a weekly newspaper. Though the qualifying adjective, "live," was eliminated from the title, it has been the endeavor of the staff to make that quality evident by the character of the paper itself. We believe that the old style once or twice a month publication, half literary and half news articles, has been supplanted for good by a paper that is primarily a newspaper, whose object is to furnish to the readers-students, faculty, alumni and friends of the University, the news of the campus. The establishment of a purely literary paper by the literary societies this year bars the return of The Chronicle to the old-style bi-monthly.Volume eighteen of The Chronicle has endeavored to carry out the policy outlined above. How well it has succeeded is a matter to be judged by those who have read what has appeared. Bear this in mind, however, if at times the sheet has seemed lacking in good material, blame yourselves, not the paper- if it didn't happen you couldn't expect to find it in The Chronicle. The reporters were not allowed to fabricate and were at times exceedingly hard pressed for material. Strong endeavors were put forward to stir something to shake off the lethargy that seemed to have fallen upon student life during a part of the year, but to no avail. Now, if you desire more news next year, you know how to get it.The paper has in all ways endeavored to be fair to all whose interests were represented and if some articles have stirred the wrath of the ones concerned it has been unintentional. We think that the conservative student will agree that it has fairly stood for the interests of students and the University at large. We hope to see the day when, instead of a weekly The Chronicle will become a bi-weekly and at length a daily. Such a development will take time and will necessitate a much larger student body. For the present, however, we are content with the paper as it is and, after a prosperous year, we wish all success to the staff of 1910-11.(140) |