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Lh. Hd~antag.s of Co-€ducation at «I,st,rn Maryland. il''''' HE president said he didn't want no ~)hilosophical treatise b.ut wanted us to get down off our philosophical high horse and dig for the common everyday truth but we all know that truth is philosophy so I can't help putting some philosophy in although I ain't no phi- losopher but with such a prize in sight I want to express my views which are correct for I have been here for one year and have seen all of college life and truthfully say I don't know whether or not its advantages are more than its disadvantages but 1 am bound to say they are and to prove this I will begin at the beginning and S!lY that it teaches them that's the boys politeness for they have to foot it up to College because the girls monopolize all the cabs the town can afford but because it appertains to the I ought to (I got in that for called strikes how S0111eboys and to grinning and eyes at each other the Faculty that this is a disadvantage ain't and I can prove it for strikes increase the general stock of happiness by increasing the happiness of two wbo are a part of the whole and whatever increases the happiness is 11 good for 1 heard a Senior say so and whatever is a g-oodis an advantage therefore strikes are advantages that is philosophy although I did not mean to use it it somehow just slippedin and as r was going to say the strikes can't talk with each other all they want and hence must write so that the English teacher gives them perfect marks in even in one year become so adept (I heard someone use this r guess its right) that the authors we study aren't half so good but while on the line of letters you must be resourceful for you know you must not let the Faculty see you passing your letters so you learn to be quick and sharp and make good business men and women but speaking of those smiles they cultivate the facial expression so much and show your false teeth if you have any or if you are too young for these they make pretty dimples but supreme, above all is parlor night that is when I'OU can talk to the girls when you get a chance and this is the acme of hurna!; invention boys and girls talking to each other at the t9P of their -+ 184-l-