THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

It has been a custom so old that the oldest living graduate remembers it as a mewling Freshman, for us to publish warnings, exhortations, pleadings, and commands for men to study for their examinations. The aforesaid warnings come always nine days before, to provide the time of the proverbial wonder. Having done that, we laid aside the pen, with the conscious rectitude of a good duty well done.

This year, with restraint which is unparalleled, we have refrained. The reason may not be ascribed to the German War, the income tax, or the high cost of paper. It was simply that we hit upon the conclusion that our Cassandran prophecy of imminent catastrophe fell upon deaf and Trojan ears.

If any man there be who relied on editorial exhortations to begin study for his finals, and failing to hear those exhortations, failed his examinations, let him speak, for him we have offended. If there is one man who has forgotten because of us that the finals exist, let him speak, for him we have offended.

Then none we have offended.