Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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ill PREFATORY OBSERVATIONS CONCERNINGAPHILOSOPHY OF LIFE gl o sHtP can be steered with its wheel lashed fast 5 A the ship without chart and compass can do 7 but drift. So it is with a philosophy of life. If one fe me is to reach a destination, one must have a destina- tion, and not be blown about by every wind of doctrine. On the other hand, the steersman that keeps his course must shift the wheel alertly with every change of wind or fresh ocean current the ship encounters. Wisdom is delicately balanced be- tween loyalty to principle and openness of mind. How easy for constancy to harden into a sort of rigor morris of stupid custom, without variety, adventure, or zest, and how facile the descent from alert intelligence, to mere opportunism and expedieucy, without range, prospect, plan or hope. But where, amid the confusions of this epoch, can a chart be found? One need not despair of an answer. Hold fast the conviction that a man has power, within limits, to choose his course, and there remains only the question of direction. Now two points sullice to determine a line, and any line may be projected into infinity. Every person recognizes some loy- alty beyond his own pleasure, some devotion to a person, group, nation, or cause. This loyalty is to him utterly valid and authoritative. Let him project it into infinity, by working it to the utmost. If it is only the loyalty of the worker to his job, he may give it an infinite projection and make it the beginning of a life-philosophy, by seeking to know the total meaning of the job, its place in the economy of life, all its scientific, technical, and human bearings. Alfred Noyes considered the hand-organ Hunder the aspect of eternity. That is wisdom.

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,,,. X 'E 'xx .YS PURE ENGLISH --' 'HAT Oxford is the home of Greek and other lost causes makes it none the less attractive. What can be more entertaining than the magic indulged in to 52:52 Rag? - - as i keep causes ahve? ashamed of the absurd folly Robinson says that We are and illogicality of our thought. Rather of its drab common- placeness. Part of the joy we take in recognizing an allusion is due to our sense of superiority over others who do not. And litera- ture would be impossible Without allusiveness--at any rate, infinitely poorer. Your true conservative asks whether others have done and are doing what is proposedg he does not inquire Whether the results have been good. A liberal may be defined as one who lianlcers after radical ideas Without having the courage to believe in them. A radical is one who believes in the ideas but does noth- ing about it. A man who really proposes to accomplish something new is a visionary or a dernagogue. SI