THE BATTALION
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EDITORIAL
STAFF
L. W. JOHNSTON . . .
J. M. GARCIA
Managing Editor
S. C. GIESEY
Y. B. GRIFFIS
P. A. DRESSER
C. WILLIAMS
F. R. McKNIGHT
R. L. HERBERT
C. V. ELLIS
W. G. CARNAHAN . .
J. A. BARNES
M. H. HOLLOWAY .
S. A. ROELOFS
BUSINESS STAFF
LESTER HANKS
D. W. SHERRILL
J. A. REYNOLDS
ROBISON CRUSOE LIVED A
LONELY LIFE
How a photograph would have cheered him.
Is your sweetheart a Robison Crusoe ? She will
appreciate a photograph of yourself and no
doubt you have other friends who will like one
also. Made from your Lorghorn negative or
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MORE PROGRESS
Somewhere back in the days of our lost youth we remember hearing
someone voice the popular platitude to the effect that inaction is the genesis
of idleness, which is sin surely. To be busy is to be good—that is another
platitude. Keep working, sweat, keep eveidastingly busy and the soul will
be remade and recast into something better. Keep going, my lads, and if
you live, the world and all its works will be yours.
This is the reiglion of an industrial age as preached by tlie brawny
high priests of Lucre. This is the doctrine of Maximum Output and the
gospel of The Gods of Machinery. But—platitudes are at best only plati
tudes, and what shall a man profit, we wonder, if he fills his eyes with
sweat so that he is intellectually blind ?
To a few it is given to look clearly beyond the horizons of thought.
How with these if they bow to the popular credo and become dizzied by
the rush and swirl of things, if gears and little cogged wheels mesh out
the frail essences of thought ?
Now this college is and most others are peopled largely by the sons of
industry who have taken the place of the robed and solemn scholars of
other days. In place of robes we are not unpleasantly regaled by the sight
of radiant sweaters, and libraries are constructed after stadiums are built.
Stadiums are places of pleasure, certainly, but libraries . . .What will wiser
men of later years have to say of all this sweat-blinded, money-seeking,
militant swarming of intellectual ants on their little mound of industry ?
Illusion—that mistaken perception of life that makes it a happy melo
drama, and without which this existence of ours would seem a dull and
drab affair. Old Bill Shakespeare once compared life to a stage, with men
and women as merely players, each going and coming in his turn. Is it lit
tle more or less than that now ?
For those who think that the world is becoming more practical every
day, it would be well for them also to discover that it is also becoming
more illusioned and deluded. Althought it is a necessity for man to be prac
tical eight hours out of every twenty-four, he constantly rebels against it,
and in the long evenings after work the mind still seeks peace in the hap
py illusions of far away air castles and dream boats. Such happy unreal
ities indeed are not only for youth; they are for every age of man. In
childhood there is the yearning to be strong and big like papa. In youth
there are the romantic fallacies of the ideal dream-girl and Prince Charm
ing that surely captivates and carries away the heart of every adolescent.
In middle age there is ever the burning desire to have the mastery of
eighty-seven Napoleons and to conquer the world. In old age there are the
recollections of life and how perfectly grand it must seem to them to live
again all the experiences of their lifetime.
The practical things of life only serve to make illusions sweeter and
every age regardless must have its romanticists and be fed on illusions,
lest man should realize the cold certainties and thus bring the race to a
tragic end.
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