The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 24, 1918, Image 14

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Newspaper Page Text12 THE BATTALION Wednesday, April 24, 1918 APPRAISING THE COLLEGE YEAR The Freshman who entered colleg'e last September doubtless was sad dened in the first few days of campus life at the thought of the days and months, before he would pack his trunk to return home at the close of the year’s work. But perhaps the same student, as he now realizes that the year will soon close, finds himself looking back over the fleeting days' with a consciousness that they have not been so very long after all. It is a fact of common experience that the length of a day is not determined, after all, so much by fixed number of hours as by the use that is made of those hours. To the man whose life is crowded with important work, a day is much shorter than it is to a man who wastes his time in profitless ways. For that reason and in that sense the college year is not of equal length to all students. I hear stu dents say occasionally “I cannot rea lize how time is flying,” or, “The week has gone by before I realized it.” This is the attitude of mind of the busy college man absorbed in his work and ambitious to make the most of his college opportunities. This is the season of the year when the Freshman can afford to make an appraisal of his year’s work. Every student will profit by asking himself several questions. Have I made the most of my opportunities? Have I acquired serious student habits? Have I learned the importance of thorough preparation of my daily work? What regrets have I about the year’s work? Have I met the char acter test of manhood? Has my col lege record thus far been one that will reflect credit upon me in subse quent years? These and numerous other questions will help every stu dent who appreciates the seriousness of life and the responsibility of col lege days in evaluating the year’s work. 'ihe questions that have been sug gested may remind some students of several preliminary questions that have a determining influence upon the college man. Did the students look forward to a college caieet while enrolled in the public school? Was the student sent to the coliege or did ite come of his own choice 7 Did the ■•student select this college for himself oi was it the choice of his parents or of some one else who influenced his decision? Is the course that I am pursuing the one that meets my needs and does it correlate with my aptitudes and abilities ! These ques tions entered into the student habits and the result determines the stan dards of his work. I wonder if the Fresman college man has begun to appreciate the im portance of a college education. An drew Carnegie said many years ago that “The almost total absence of the college graduate from high positions in the business world seem to justify the conclusion that college education as it exists is fatal to success in that domain. The graduate has not the slightest chance, entering at twenty, against the boy who swept the office, or who begins a shipping clerk at fourteen.” Do you suppose Mr. Carnegie would defend that state ment to-day? The demand for col lege men in great commercial enter- prizes is so great that the supply can not be met. The fact is that the handicaps are so great at the pres ent time for the man without a col lege education that it has become al most an accident for a man without adequate preparation to obtain the largest measure of success. Of course there are many very success ful business men who never attended college, but the chances of success for this type of man is constantly de creasing. This is the explanation of w .y there are hundreds of young men in our colleges to-day while the^e were only a comparatively few when Mr. Carnegie expressed his views. The discerning freshmen must have oeen impressed here with the unusual advantages that a college education offers in War times. Never before has a college education been so help ful or the merits of collegiate in struction so completely vindicated as in the months since the beginning of ostilities with Germany. The young collegian v/ould be very dense indeed if he failed to see the enormous ad vantages that a college education of fers at this time. These considerations ought to in spire the college student with cour age to fight his battles and with per severance in overcoming difficulties as he struggles for a college educa tion. I am always depressed when a young man turns in his resignation and indicates thereby ^that he has ac cepted defeat at the hands of discour agement or some other counteracting influence. A number of men who entered the Freshman class in Sep tember have accepted defeat in this way. It is encouraging that so many have met the requirements and are continuing their work until the end of the session. Every Freshman stu dent who completes his first year’s work has greatly increased his 'chances of receiving a diploma in three more years. I trust that there is a high resolve in the minds of the members of this Freshman class to maintain a high percentage of those who will be awarded diplomas on the completion of his course of study. W. B. BIZZELL. ’21 RABBI’S RAVINGS. HOW do you like to get up * H: sfc WHILE it is all dark * * * AND looks just like you * * OUGHT to go back to bed * * * AND sleep another hour or * * * TWO? I have always found * * * IT hard to get up at any * * * TIME of morning but now * * * IT takes Fish “Razor” * * * FIFTEEN minutes, with all * * * THE aid of the electric light * * * GLOBE held in my face * * * A COWBELL rung in my ears * * * TO convince me that * * * IT is reveille-time! When * * * I do get up I try to carry OUT the purpose of this * * * EARLY rising and do not burn I if ( My light—are you as conscientious * * ABOUT it as all that? I f * * THINK I have had irty last * * * MORNING of darkness tho! * * * THIS morning when I was * * * ATTEMPTING to “clean up” by * * * 1 HE light which was conspicious * * * BY its absence—I found my * ‘ifc * BRUSH and tube and began the * * * COLGATE stunt with great ZEST and pep. My enthusiasm sje * * INCREASED considerably in * * *■ ABOUT seven seconds when I * * * DISCOVERED that I did not # * * HAVE the PINK tube of tooth PASTE—but the BLUE tube of SHAVING SOAP!!!!!! The Idea: I’ll try any thing once! Somethings I’ll try twice! 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