Thope that I am not misunderstood and dubbed an enemy of the student In fact, student days and I have arted corupay not so very long ago, and I regard patriotism as the most beautiful and the loftiest feeling that one can possess. No one is blind to the fact that the birth of our Req public was the work of zealous returned students from Japan. How ever, there is genuine patriotism which secke to identify itself with interests larger and more important than one's own, and that which is patriotism to all appearances but at bottom selfishness and a love of making mischief. Some of the young men would give Mongolia to Russia if they could, and yet they eign to profess themselves patriots The difference between those turned students, and these students of to-day is in their dissimilar conception of the word patriotism. The former was quiet and did much, the latter is noisy and does little, More-ever, the young men of the present day seem to be of the opinion that He public expects them to create dis turbances on memorable days, such jas May 20 and June 23, and they believe that they ought to live up to the anticipation. There are number-leas peaceful means of showing our sympathy to the deceased other than applying violent methods which, instead of aulisting the support of our countrymen, only serve to strengthen the antipathy and widea the gulf between the two.
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