No one will deny that very often an article or a poem in a college paper derives additional interest from the reader's acquaintance with the writer; and it is not absolutely necessary that this acquaintance be a personal one. The knowledge that we are reading an author of whose merits we have formed a previous judgment imparts zest, even if that author presents himself to our imagination only as X, Y, or Z. It is, therefore, to be regretted that articles are not more systematically signed with initials real or assumed. A writer should not be either too modest or too proud to acknowledge his productions, - unless they are, as sometimes happens, of a private nature, - and the pleasure thus afforded to subscribers is surely sufficient reason for such moderate publicity.
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