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Mountain Climbing

And in any case in pursuing
excellence, a person will be like
James Ramsay Ullmann's mountain
climber: a man who is never more a
man than when he climbs
mountains he can never climb:
when he is at that point when he
can go no farther. But always his
eyes are on the peak and every
faculty that is his would take him
there.

So the editor who seeks
excellence will provide himself not
only with a craft or his campus
with an outstanding (and thus
useful) newspaper. More, he will
fight the good — the very best —
fight: the fight for the excellence of
our works which are the meaning of
our lives.