No hiding the truth in 1903

From the 1903 Chinook, one of my favorite passages ever:

"Of the 'success and futility' of the Evergreen it is useless to speak – every one connected with the college knows all about that, especially the futility. Neither would it be worth while to trace the history of this remarkable enterprise from its earliest beginnings in the dawn of the Washington Agricultural College down to the present time. It is likely that no one but students of economic science and history (possibly biologists also) would be interested in such an account, and it would be better for such students to so 'source work' than to depend upon any statements we might make. We will simply leave it recorded here that the Evergreen is in the eighth year (tenth, if we include its predecessor, the College Record) of its promising career, and that the present staff go about their work as if it were really important.