"Will you kindly print the names of those members of the class of '88 who passed their entrance examinations with honors, and greatly oblige 'Four Freshmen.' " Such was the modest request which we received yesterday.
Gladly would we comply, were it within our power. Space, however, or rather the lack of space, prevents us. We doubt if the "Four Freshmen" are fully alive to the enormous demands which they make upon us. We freely forgive them. Their excuse is ignorance or the present low state of the thermometer, which accounts for many cool things. When they have been longer with their class they will begin to comprehend that the number of bright men with whom they are associated is legion-not four.
To do justice to the class we should be obliged to issue supplement after supplement, column after column. We should even be obliged to deny publication to the Photographic Committee and its frantic appeals, and this we could not do. To get one's name into print is certainly a praiseworthy desire, but we cannot undertake to fulfill all praiseworthy desires, -this one in particular. We would call the attention of the "Four" to the fact that they will undoubtedly receive a warm welcome at the office, where their thirst for knowledge can easily be gratified.
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