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He spoke to her, told her how he loved her, how beautiful she was, and how he would sacrifice all he owned for her safety. And she looked up at him with eyes that seemed to drink in his words. And then— Soon there came a sorrowful day, when, coming home to spend those wondrous hours before the fire with her at his side—he found—alas—he found she had gone—had fled, and left no trace as to the cause of the abrupt parting. She—she of the fickle sex, betrayed the love he had so generously lavished upon her. She went to another, leaving behind her the one who had been her companion and lover. Then, with a heart filled with sadness, he sat alone before the fire, thinking and mourning the loss of his dear one, his sweet little pal, his COLLIE. J. B. C. ’27 A DISSERTATION ON STUDY Several thousand years ago a race of people now extinct invented a form of torture that they called study. After the old men of the tribe had observed a few things about the stars and the moon they decided that their children should learn these principles and hand them down to their children. Accordingly they forced the young men and women to drag their minds from a gay and happy life to the sordid business of studying. Studying then became the common term for parents' tyranny and has descended from generation to generation. At first the boldest youths stood up for their rights. They refused to study and drew up a long list of reasons for this decision. However, little did they reck of their parents’ craftiness and resources. They found themselves ostracized from society; they saw brainless youths get good jobs simply because they could tell about the Northern Lights. With a sob in their throats and curse in their hearts the brave youths threw aside their manhood and picked up their books. And so study has come to us, a thing to be borne, because of necessity. It is in this way that the modern child thinks of study. He sees it as a task that has to be done and goes at it with the idea of beating the game as much as he possibly can. He can’t help, it is hereditary. Study is simply an unpleasant experience, a period of life that must be skipped over as quickly and as easily as possible. And yet there are some people who go at study as though it were a pleasure. They revel in it and spend many otherwise happy hours tearing madly through the pages of morbid text-books in chasing the illusive pronoun. Be patient, be calm with them, fellow sufferers, they Page Sixteen are not to be blamed for perhaps in their study they find an outlet for their mania which might otherwise be dangerous. By a decree of our betters we are all forced to studv but after a person has spent sixteen or seventeen years of his life studying what good will it do him? He will' forget it all sooner or later and will think of the good times he missed when he was foolishly studying. In a few years won’t vou be proud to tell your young son that the sine over the cosine equals the tangeant! “Yes,” he will say, “but why?” And vou are stuck. Another half year gone to waste. Yes, brothers, let’s stand up for our rights and yell, “Down with Studv”— Hooray! H. W. G. ’25 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Whosoever wishes to describe the political life of the American people can accomplish this end from a number of starting points. Perhaps lie would begin with the Constitution and expound the document which has given to the American body-politic its remarkable and permanent form; or he might ramble through histories and trace out the rise of a great world power from a few petty colonies. Yet all this would be but a superficial delineation. Whoever wishes to understand the secret of that baffling turmoil, the inner mechanism and motive behind all the politically effective forces must set out from one point; he must know and appreciate the yearning of the American heart after self-direction. In social life the American is always very ready to conform to the will of another. With his inborn good nature he lends himself to social situations, which are otherwise inconvenient. Invariably the American feels himself responsible for everything that happens about him. In Russia, as a well known American once said, serfdom could be wiped out by one stroke of the Czar’s pen, and millions of Russians would be freed from slavery with no loss of life or property. “We Americans had to offer up a half-million lives and many millions worth of property in order to free our slaves. And'vet nothing else was to be thought of. We had to overcome that evil by our own initiative and by our own exertions reach our goal. And just because we arc Americans and not Russians no power on earth could have relieved us of our responsibilities.” I hus, when the spirit of self-direction dominates all other motives the government of that people is necessarily republican. But it does not conversely follow that all republics are founded on the spirit of self-direction in the people. Thus Page Seventeen
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