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“Time-Out”
The most serious charge laid at the doors of universities, particular
ly on this continent, today is that they do not prepare the student for
life. This does not mean that the university courses are not practioal
or utilitarian enough, for no one could seriously charge our educational
institutions with that at the present, but that when the student has
finished his course, as practical as it may be, he is not prepared to
grapple with the problems of life.
The student attending the university is offered and does take a mul
titude of courses, usually joins several clubs, to g*ive himself an oppor
tunity to use his abilities and frequently participates in athletics. This
seems all that is humanly possible for a student to do at a university.
True, this is all he may do as far as taking advantage of the external
facilities of a great university. But he has neglected the most im
portant side of college life, that is—trying to understand what a college
education leads to.
Unless a student takes time out to consider his path, to endeavor
to synthesize his information and to form a working philosophy, he has
really wasted his time. The term philosophy has a high sounding note,
but it is really the only work that can fit the situation. It is not
philosophy in the sense that it is used in expression, a philosophy of life.
It does not mean a philosophy of life. One does not look for that neces
sarily at college although the experiences gained there will undoubtedly
help each individual to form one, for everyone has a philosophy of life
whether or not he chooses to give it such a name. It is rather thought
that is necessary—a synthesizing thought, a realization of one’s prob
lems and l an attempt to solve them. By merely going to lectures and
clubs and by participating in athletics one is merely passively accepting
what is offered. The student must use what he acquires in these ac-
tivitieS .toifiind out what he wants both in college and in life.
The m&in constituent missing in the student’s life is this “time
out.” .The student should every once in a while stop himself and say
“Where :am I going?” What are my activities giving me?” “Can I
adequately from this helter-skelter of experience fashion out a uni
fying! principle ?” These questions have to be faced in life and if they
are realized while one is pursuing an academic course one is all the
more prepared for life. If a principle and a purpose can be found in
college then will trouble over what courses to take and what clubs to
join and what attitude to take to problems of college, be no more. This
working philosophy can be the basis of reference for the solution of
these questions.
Then will the student be adequately prepared iv/r life and armed
with this he will be able to look life in the face and jqueeze from it the
little bit of happiness that is sure to be his. “Timi out” is the answer
to the charge.—McGill Daily.
A civilization is now in the making in which industry will not only
be one of the greatest factors but a vital social force as well.—Frances
Perkins.
Children have become distressingly restless, disagreeable, disobedi
ent and ugly. They suffer nervousness, super-sensitiveness and physical
complaints which are definitely traceable to the depression.—Dr. Henry
C. Schumacher.
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The
Passing Review
INVITATION—Contrary to all of
the other letters received by the
college officials. Dr. Walton re
ceived a letter from the Westbrook
Hotel in Fort Worth congratulat
ing him on the way the students
conducted themselves while in Fort
Worth on the recent corps trip
. . . . according to the letter, the
Aggies were perfect gentlemen
. . . . and the management of the
hotel invited the cadets to visit
the Westbrook any time they are
in Fort Worth.
DIRT—After the past week-end,
it is almost necessary that some of
the campus big shots, military suc
cesses, blue gooses, and social
lions be exposed along with other
campus nuisances—for instance—
since when did CARROLL COX
and ROSS REID become the invi
tation committee, 1, 2, for MISS
PATIENCE CHANCE? And who
said Bill Keeling wasn’t A LIEU
TENANT COLONEL .... is that
necessary to get the date “Hot
Water”? .... In the future “E”
Infantry will give the proper res
pect to the student staff of the In
fantry Regiment .... according
to COLONEL HOLMES .... Im
agine “ITCH” MOORE and
“GRANDPA” HILDEBRANDT not
making a corps dance? .... Who
is it that causes “BIG BOY” PITT
MAN to spend his last fifteen
cents on a soda?
HARTMAN—Fellows, get “Per-
chy-werchy” HARTMAN to teach
you how to play “Pinchy-Winchy”.
He’s a demon at the game already,
though he just learned how Satur
day night. “Perch”, ladies’ man
that he is, was doing his best to
entertain a Baylor co-ed after the
corps dance. Well, the party drag
ged along rather slowly until the
young lady thought up a new
game. When Hartman wasn’t look
ing, she blackened her fingers with
soot off a burned match and pinch
ed his dimples, cooing musically
“Pinchy-winchy, pinchy-lwinchy.”
The Cuero gobbler instinct made
his neck turn red at first, but
Perch soon got into the spirit of
the game—pinchy-wjnchying every
time he was pinchy.winched. This
kept up till his faceAlooked like a
mud-splattered model'T Ford, be-
PERSISTENCE
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Late Dean of Men,
University of Illinois.
j I had not seen Plank for a dozen
years or so until he ran into me at
the Congress ho
tel in January. 1
remembered him
at once as ratti
er slow in the
head when lie
was in college
Calculus was not
wholly an open
book to him in
h i s sophomore
-year, and phys
ics and chemis
try proved equal
ly hard sledding
for him. His
grades were pret
ty low, and, contrary to the belief
and doctrine of the loafer, low
grades in college usually mean poor
or indifferent performance in imsi
ness afterwards.
But slow as he was, Plank had a
quality which bade fair to offset his
slowness of brain. He never gave
a tiling up. If tlie problem was hard,
he kept at it until it was solved. If
lie failed today, he came back tomor
row for a second trial. He tiling on
like a bull dog. when lie once got his
leetli into a tiling.
“How are you doing?” l askeo
him after we had exchanged greet
ings.
“Very much better than 1 imagine
you thought 1 would do.” lie replied.
‘I was a poor student, as I am
sure you well remember. I didn’t
_ r et through in four years.”
“BiP you did get through." I sug
gested. “Yes,” he said, “I’m not
easily downed, and I do work hard
I've made money—much mo e than
I had expected—I’m carrying heavy
responsibilities, and I think I'm a
good citizen.”
“Work will overcome a great many
handicaps,” I had to admit. “Persist
ence is almost as effective as genius,
and whatever other virtues or tal
ents you may have lacked, you had
persistence. I'm not surprised that
you succeeded.”
Of course, if it were possible, I’d
rather be a genius, but since this is
impossible I’m glad I’m persistent
1933. Western Newspaper Union.
fore some one handed him a mir
ror. It almost broke his HART,
MAN!
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BOOK BECKONINGS
By J. N. Ferguson
In addition to the twenty five
ar thirty new books put into cir
culation last week at the library,
approximately the same number is
being- added this week; some
novels, many biographies, and
jther types.
How did you use that ten
minutes before lunch during the
last week ? Did you trade it for
something of great value to you
or did you go to lunch having
given part of your time for no
thing ? As I said last issue, if we
would read during those ten
minutes each day for the school
term, three or five large volumes
could easily be covered, and as
“Dad” Elliott said “the way to be
gin is to begin,” do begin today.
Don’t miss the opportunity of read
ing the good books the library has
for your disposal. Here’s this
week’s assortment.
The Background of Science—Sir
James Jeans
How do the new ideas in physics
influence the philosophy of the
time ? How will it affect you ?
Jeans is an interesting writer.
This book is not dry.
The Laughing Pioneer—Paul Green
In speaking of thia work, The
Saturday Review of Literature
says: “Paul Green’s deep sincerity,
his sense of pity, the dignity of
his work give him a high place in
contemporary American litera
ture”.
The Fatal River—Frances Gaither
A very valuable book for both
entertainment and historical back
ground. It is the first modern
book on the career of the French
explorer, La Salle.
A Green Bough—William Faulkner
A collection of about fourty-five
of Mr. Faulkner’s poems which
show clearly his great capability of
expressing his imagination in a
simple and ecstatic manner.
Viva Villa!—Edgcumb Pinchon
For twenty years Mr. Pinchon
has worked on this book. It is an
extra-ordinary biography of an
extra-ordinary man, Pancho Villa,
the Mexican revolutionary general.
The Life of Emerson—Van Wyck
Brooks
A book considered by many to
be the crowning work of Mr.
Brooks career • as an American
culture critic. Says The Atlantic |
Monthly: Mr. Brook’s bio
graphies have brought all the
episodes of our literary history,
and dozens of its most representa
tive men, into the focus of a widely
cultivated and imaginative mind,
giving them a coherence, a relev
ance, a meaning, which for the
most of us they would otherwise
lack.” The Life of Emerson is
another biography that is certain
ly of that nature.
Flying—James E. Fechet, Forward
by Eddie Rickenbacker
One of a series published by the
Chicago Century of Progress in
keeping its purpose depicting
“graphically and systematically
the last hundred years of intellec
tual endeavor.” Flying gives you
“the background upon which Man
is surely building in his endeavor
to dominate Time and Space”.
Goodbye to Western Culture—
Norman Douglas
A scholar’s views on Western
culture and a comparison of it
with that of the East. In “plain
language hesitates the apalling
facts about our morals, manners,
government, facts which we either
do not know or prefer not to see”.
Memories of Marshall Foch
Foch, the leader of ten million
men, tells his personal story of
the war based on his own ex
periences.
All Europe is rapidly approach
ing complete communism, and the
war which the capitalist states are
now fomenting will be greatly in
strumental in communizing the
world.—Tom Mann, British labor
leader.
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