University of Virginia Library

Aiming For Perfection

But the craft itself is still not
enough (nor is the imagination to
use it creatively).

After the craft is learned there
must still be the will to use it —
always, without fail.

At the root of every excellent
college paper — and I am told the
paper we once published was
among them — is the singularity of
mind which is driven by an
all-consuming passion to publish
what its editors know and what
everyone else knows is the best
undergraduate newspaper in college
history, a paper as nearly perfect as
still imperfect talents would allow,
a paper as unblemished as possible
by the error of amateurism.