Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

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CARONTfl A AN Editor-in-Chief Alvin E. Lake Assistant Editor- n-Chief Helen McCauley Literary Editor Fred J. Watkins Assistant Literary Editor Marguerite Hodges Art Editor Olive Stonier Music Editor Marjorie Holmes Business Manager Hallock Wood Assistant Business Manager Reva Dickinson Organizations Audrus Whitmer Photographs Maizie Hurley Chronicles and Humor .Fredland Clarke Athletics Joseph Dixon Junior Representative Paul Stevens Alice H. Doane — Faculty Advisor

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EDITORIAL Life consists in living. Education consists in learning how to live. Mansfield State Normal School has meant both to us. Edison has said of himself that he has merely been a good sponge, absorbing ideas from persons and things about him. The world is grateful for this kind of sponge. Some people are good sponges only as far as absorption goes. They seem to be able to expand indefinitely and we say of them that they are puffed up . This type of person usually absorbs that which to him will seem to do the most immediate personal good, or he may just have a greed for knowledge. Have you known this kind of person ? His expression usually betrays him. He seems to have an ingrowing mentality which hurts him. He becomes stagnant with accumulated knowledge lacking in practical expression. He becomes useless to society, is called an old fogey and is discarded. The real test of knowledge is its application in the aid of human progress. Utility is the word. Let one of us be called upon to give of his knowledge. No sooner does he try than he begins to feel a need for more. Who of us has passed through a teaching semester without realizing this ? As long as we absorb that which is good and give it to the world, nature imbues us with greater absorptive ability and main- tains youth with n us. One who is modern in his thought is never thought of as being old . If he can no longer absorb new ideas, he is old though his much vaunted chronological age is but sweet sixteen. During our time at Mansfield State Normal, it has been our privilege to receive freely from the world ' s fund of knowledge. What measure we have obtained, we now realize, is dependent upon how diligently we applied ourselves to learning. We go forward. Our scope is broadened. In a small way we begin to exert power. With increased power comes increased responsibility. We shall be considered to i-ank with men and women and be expected to bear the responsibilities incumbent upon manhood and womanhood. Edison has not done, nor will he do, all that can be done in the development of electricity. A no mean fame and fortune awaits the man or woman who develops any new practical idea. Science has only begun to enter the home. Review recent developments in science and medicine; in airplanes and automobiles, in agriculture, business and education. See what ten years has meant in the development of the wireless and radio. Marconi only started something. There is just as abundant opportunity for originality, initiative and creative genius today as there ever was. Having freely received of life and learning, let us freely give and increase our knowledge n the service of our fellow men and women. May we absorb new thoughts and ideas; exert new and renewed effort to maintain high ideals and standards that w.? may increase in usefulness to God and to man.