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~bttortal When disagreeable things happen, as they will sometimes even in a college community, let us endeavor to keep them "in the family." Loyalty is one of the finest traits that can be possessed; we all pride ourse lves on our loyalty to the University and to the various colleges of which we, as units, are members, but is it loyalty to discuss, outside of intimate campus circles, matters which, when spread abroad, are more than apt to be misinterpreted? The students themselves have, perhaps, the best intentions in the world; they would be really horrified were they told that they were helping to spread malicious gossip in town and even throughout the country. Such is the case, however: someone hears from a seemingly reliable source what appears to him to be a good story. He or she then proceeds to tell this story to friends, perhaps writes it home, and so starts on its travels an apparently innocent tale which is positive ly unrecognizable when it returns with the moss it has gathered cluring its career as a rolling stone. Nearly every damaging story has in it a germ of truth, for, of course, none of us would purposely tell anything that we knew would injure the school. It is, therefore, just such reports, false in most particulars, that are apt to hurt our reputation, of which we are so proud. There is, of course, a certain amount of talking about each other that goes on here among ourselves. We wish this also could be suppressed, but are afraid its elimination is impossible, for, after all, we are but human, and we err in more ways than one. It does seem, though, that a resolution might be made by the student body now, at the beginning of the year - and perhaps it might be kept also - to treat college gossip as if it were intimate knowledge of the activities of our own families. Don't let's allow trivial and insignificant occurrences to assume gigantic proportions. And don't let's make mountains out of mole hills.