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In some important aspects at least, our present "Red-blood" board is stronger than any of its predecessors. But, the Red-blood "neither looks back nor looks ahead. He lives in present action. The Red-blood sees nothing; but the Mollycoddle sees through everything." Though "all the building is done by Red-bloods," yet "the whole structure of civilization rests on foundations laid by Mollycoddles," and "in the long run the Red-blood does what the Mollycoddle tells him." Says the strenuous Oswald—in Joan and Peter—"Don't you know that education is building up an imagination? Everybody knows that." A temerarious critic of the supreme American mollycoddle settles it in a sentence: "And if Lincoln had been a good executive, we should have had no Lincoln."
ALBERT WATKINS.
PUBLICATIONS
Except for official bulletins or catalogues, the earliest regular publication issuing from the campus was The Hesperian Student, established about 1871 or 1872. The paper was managed entirely by students, but received little financial aid from the regents. The first editors of the paper lodged on the attic-like top floor of the building, as did the janitor; and they helped to keep up the fires in the stoves by which the building was heated. The contents of The Hesperian were varied. It ran a few original serial stories, and contained an article on "The Beautiful in Art," and one entitled "Nature and Art and Intellect." As a specimen of style, the following gem, concerning the graduates of 1877, unearthed from a local column by Mr. J. A. Barrett, in 1894, may be quoted:
The hour when these young men departed from here fostering care, was one of deep interest and earnest solicitude, as well as pride, to their alma mater in her young maternity. An hour of joy and pride, because her progeny, rejoicing in the full vigor, elasticity, lofty aspiration and hope of intelligent, cultured young
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