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              have been led to believe by the business managers that all debts had been paid and that there was a slight surplus if they left un collected bills they left no records of them — and the accounts left — well one cannot tell from them who of the advertisers and subscri bers had paid or who had not paid personally we all regret that we were compelled to suspend we had on hand or promised articles from alumni and others on scientific and literary subjects which would have been a credit to the journal we have no apologies to offer for our course and now after final action has been taken we adopt this method of letting our friends know the facts in the case the quarterly board the editorial anent the honor system in the issue of march second misses the true point you conclude : many a man finds it impossible to prepare thoroughly the work assigned him when examinations come he finds that cram as he will much remains unknown shall he fail and take a condition which will cling to him as closely as did the old man of the sea to sinbad and perhaps compel him to forego further hope of the advantages of the university or shall he accept the aid which will lighten his task ?" surely you cannot think the mere requirement of a diploma the chief end of a college course ? a college course should fit a man for his life work if it does not it is useless if it is to so fit him ex aminations passed by cribbing are of no value in fact are a positive detriment by deteriorating his orig inal stock of moral stamina any act of cheating and whether it is called ponying cribbing or any other euphonious name to con ceal its true quality from the self excusing student the act described is certainly cheating — makes each following cheating so much more easy public morality is not yet at such low ebb that the having taken a course . in cheating is considered a recommendation by the business world in which we must achieve our material success the average college student considers himself very much of a gentleman but cheating in recita tions or examinations is as far from gentlemanly conduct as is cheating at cards until the true gentlemen in college realize and emphasize this fact no reform will be possible and when this feeling about the matter is reached the evil will dis appear at once these may seem to some hard words but no evil was ever done away with by calling it pretty names and blinking at the truth a e f 3 we deem it necessary that a statement of the condition of the lehigh quarterly be submitted to the students of the university last year when the present board was elected the 93 board had just been informed by the publishers of the quarterly that there remained unpaid a large debt from previous boards the'92 board had left no systematic accounts and it was the first intimation that their successors had that such a condition of affairs existed we requested from the times publishing co an itemized ac count and resolved to suspend publication until the statement was received which would give the exact financial condition of the journal at the beginning of last term no statement had been received and the publishers would not agree to publish the quarterly under the old conditions but de manded payment in advance as the cost of publishing one number was 150 we were unable to meet the demand they also wished a settlement of the debt or else a reduction of the debt we then resolved to suspend the publication of the quarterly during the first term about the middle of last term we received the statement from this it appears that the 92 board left a debt of nearly 300 their successors not only paid their own expense but reduced the debt to 286 the 93 board deserves great credit for their able manage ment of the journal we then determined to publish the four numbers this term if during the holidays we could secure enough advertisements to pay the expenses of publication all money to be derived from sub scribers was to go towards cancell ing the debt after a thorough and systematic canvass we did not secure enough advertisements to fulfil our ex pectations this was clue to the fact that business men were cur tailing expenses and consequently either refused to continue or else took less space than before new advertisements we were unable to secure this in brief is a resume of our work we could not consistently run deeper into debt and so at our last meeting we resolved upon a final suspension this statement has been with held until now in order that the 92 board might be allowed to understand the exact condition of affairs,and also to explain the deficit the explanations received lead us to the conclusion that the debt is due to the carelessness and perhaps incompetence of the business mana gers of the v>2 board the other members of the board seem to the brown and white south bethlehem pa march 9 1894 vol i communications no 16 calendar saturday march 10 — ee-examina tion in sophomore english 9 a m meeting junior hop com mittee sigma phi house 8 p m sunday march 11 — meeting of class day committee at delta upsilon house 8 p m christian association meet ing christmas hall 6.30 p m wednesday march 14 — epitome board meeting 7 p m psi upsilon house thursday march 15 — meeting of engineering society 7.o0 p m christmas hall meeting of electrical en gineering society 7.30 p m physical laboratory saturday march 17 — final re examination in all c e sub jects 8.30 a m lecture by hon eckley b coxe on uses of small an thracite coal 8 p m phy sical laboratorjr notice tuition fees the time limit for payment oi tuition fees is extended to march 15th the names of all students subject to the fee who have not paid at this time will be handed to the president e p wilbuk treasurer senior class meeting a senior class meeting was held tuesday noon to receive the report of the class day committee on calling the meeting to order presi dent burley said that dr chandler had told him that unless the cost of two books stolen from the alcoves be paid at once he would remove from the seniors the alcove privi leges the 1.70 was paid it was moved and seconded that the class treasurer pay the amount to the president carried it was moved that the class protest against the payment of this sum and that a committee be appointed to act for the class seconded and carried the class day committee reported that the exercises should be held on the campus and that the follow ing officers should be decided upon : class toast prophet presentation orator poet tablet orator and ivy orator the committee suggested a competition for an appropriate class song nominations were then made for the six offices it was moved and seconded that the rule regarding the payment of dues be suspended for this election carried it was then decided to hold the elections of class day officers from eleven until twelve-thirty on thursday the class cap committee pre sented a favorable report as to the number of men wishing caps it was moved and seconded that mortar-boards be worn on and after the sunday before easter car ried the meeting then adjourned agora the regular meeting of the agora literary society was held on thursday afternoon last in christmas hall messrs bernstein hes palmer and weiler all of 96 were elected to membership and messrs pool and w jackson of 96 and hood of 97 nominated the feature of the meeting was the debate upon the question " re solved that its generals are of more value to a country than its literary men the debaters upon the affirmative were messrs f mckenzie siegel and herr and upon the negative henshaw mer rill and womrath the debate was exceedingly interesting and spirited the judges rendering their decision for the negative jacoby 95 acted as critic senior class-day elections the class-day elections held 33 r esterday morning resulted as fol lows : class toast wilson ; poet schneider ; presentation orator bray ; prophet roderick ; tablet orator hall ; ivy orator ferriday college meeting the college meeting which was adjourned wednesday owing to lack of a quorum was held yester day in christmas hall president burley called the meeting to order at 12.34 p m and announced that a quorum was present the amend ments to the by-laws of the athletic association as printed in no 14 of the brown and white were then voted on section by section and adopted with some slight changes in article 1 section 2f any game was changed to read any one game ;" in article 3 sec tion 3 the word season was sub stituted for the word term the new section 7 was adopted as a reso lution a report concerning the funds of the athletic association was asked for and read by treas urer hamilton as follows : amt coll of 1000 sub . 743.25 " " from ath dues 129.00 " " " h e strat ford 13.30 " " " r.d.floyd 10.50 896.05 paid j g boyer ssoo.oo " g ordway 10.91 510.91 385.14 the meeting then adjourned