University of Santa Clara - Redwood Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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Entered Dec. t8, i(p2, at Santa Clara, Calif, as second-class matter, under Act of Congress of March j, iS7 ). Vol. IV. SANTA CLARA, CAI.., OCT. i, 1904. No. i HOPE weve 2ad io think ihai life should end iih death ' s cold hand upon us laid; ' were sad to think that we were made 0 p ' ieve, to si$ h and then to hlend J fith earth, without a hope to rise eyond the £rave, heyond the loom f the strait, silent, hideous tomh; ' were sad to know hut sohs and si hs! ut ah! the blest words still resound: ' ' he avior liveth by Jlfhose mi£ht e shall awake io endless li ht, i wake, and rise with £lorif crowned. Sophomore.

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VICE- PREISIDENT |icf a.elO Reiljy. SECREITARV Offickrs of the Studknt Body.

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THE REDWOOD THE ETHICS OF REPOSE A Study of Tennyson ' s St. Agnes ' Eve and The lyOtus-Eaters. The advocates of the strenuous life have a mighty follow- ing, because the strenuous life, when it is displayed in all its vary- ing forms, appeals, as nothing else does, to the animal element in man. The strenuous life is a life of excitement and recreation and the lover of excitement and recreation takes to it much the same as the bee takes to honey. It is natural for man to be active, and so predominant has this natural craving become that there is no room nowadays for the contemplative, whether of the poetic or of the religious cast of mind. The age of poetry, some think, is gone and with it all love for quietude. The spirit of religion, according to others, though not quite dead, is growing more and more mili- tant. If brief the world is developing an inordinate love for ma- chinery in general and for autocycles and automobiles in particu- lar. Thought, real thought, is failing us because we have attached our hearts to the material, and for the most part, to the material in motion. For these and similar reasons I cannot understand the action of those who make an apostolate of strenuosity. The author.of the essay entitled ' Sir Galahad ' and ' Ulysses ' in last month ' s issue of the Redwood attempted something like this and boldly did he insist on activity. His principle was good enough in itself, but the application is apt to lead one into an erroneous view of life. With his ideas alone to guide us, we would forever be on the alert, forever in action and our minds would be in danger of death from starvation, while we pampered the flesh. For that too much physical activity, such as he advocated, is a species of flesh indul- gence is evident. The youth from eight to eighteen is by nature more active than his elders, but the beast is naturally more active than he. Wisdom is sedate; Frivolity is ever on the move. Not that I condemn strenuosity; it is, especially when guided by intelligence, a noble quality in any man; but because its oppo- site, passivity, has been oftentimes ennobled and elevated, it may be well to study both sides of the shield and to see when, where