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paper fò t the college, in this way leaving the more perjou's- literary
w o rk -to the M onthly. U nlike-pom e ot/ier pollegp papers, the
M onthly and the W eekly work together, ;SotMn opposition .to each
other, and each paper h as'.its 'd istin ct 'line-,of work and purpose.
Û T p e H-aryard Lampoon was first - pubìished-?b>/ a staff com
posed of the disagreeing members’ of the M onthly staff and organ-
Sfed in direct ^opposition to the regular paper. Such has' been thç
sta rt of m any college weeklies^ Every; «¿liege should have at least
tw o -papers/ one for literary work, th e Jfther/for newspaper work.
In this respect high school papers and those of Some .„smaller col
leges. a r e 'a t a .great- disadvantage. >ït is most difficult to keep a
paper u p , to a high stan d ard when it mu(s t b.e the means^of pub-
fishing a l| sorts, of m atter. ;
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In t h e '^ o n d issue
th e first year, the ^ p p s to r y iVa^printed.
It was a Sfpry of real w orth and in, a way set the high -standard in
this regard -which- the' M onthly has smcç^endeavored to maintain.
A fter th is-issu e many excellent stò rie ^ appeared. -;The fwst cuts
appeared in the last issue of 1897/ v There were a; gteat^ many of
them, and th.éy teuMt h â v e 'm eant a heavy 4aK upon th ^ ^ ds ° f ‘
the- ypung paper.
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' The following year, thé paper improved ^ m e w h a t in subject
m atter. - There was a g re a t abundance of short sto rie s• and many
articles òf more Seriohs^ nature were contributed by-facultyymembêrs
and students, In 1-898 the paper/progressed rem arkably under the
efficient editorship o l'.M W Bertha | | Slater. | The .s u b ^ iÿ m atter
of this year was excellent and the form of the paper much im p rp y e ^
; II was n o t until the following year th at cuts were inserted feen-
> etously throughout the defies p f the year, tìith e rtp ; only the" Com
mencement num ber had pictures.
The year of 1900;'waS; év id e^Jy a y e a r p f ’-deÿ-r’e&ÿon/fôf the
M onthly, p s its 'w&óìe form is cheaper. I t is much 'smaller in .size
and th e p rin t is'very poor. Note w orthy ’among'ìté contents, is th e
plea o flth e editor,".W alter W hittfeséy, for m ore literary work on
t î e p a rt'd f the ^ ù ffén ts. V > t all times thi*/|eem s to have T een a
great hindrance in t h é ’W.ay/’qf the ..editors. W ith two papers in
th e field at this time,
must, indeed, h av ê'been difficult to get gpod
subject m atter.’fop both/of 'them .
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I In 1901 there was a slight im provem ent in thè form Af fffie paper.
¿ T h e print was considerably'hetter', but t h e t t o m e w a^^ T O ^m all,
perhaps on account’ of lack o f . support in p o n trib ü tîb n p from .Stu-