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I ' ll K CLEMSON COLLEGE CHRONICLE 379 some measure remunerate the professors for their sacrifice in entertaining them. My friend has admitted that the professors can do for the students w hat can be done for a monkey — teach them mannerism?. If this can be done, we can ask for nothing more. We cannot hope to change a man ' s whole motives and inward being by such a simple process. but if we can give them mannerisms, the result would be worth the trouble, for these mannerisms are exceedingly important in order that our inward graces may be made manifest. I am aware of the fact that it makes very little difference whether or not we know just how many fingers to use in holding a cup of tea, or at what angle we should hold our elbows when it becomes necessary to shake the hand of another. These fine points need never worry us. In fact they are so insignificant that they should not be men- tioned. Practical business people cannot hope to keep up with all of the changing rules of society, but there are some unchangeable accomplishments, which will serve you well on all occasions — notably common politeness, and a free and easy air in the presence of ladies and strangers or in social gatherings. These things come to us very largely through practice, and association with people where we are placed upon our dignity. It seems to me that this phase of a stu- dent ' s development would decline considerably in four long years while excluded from all these helpful influences, while the benefit of them would serve a very desirable purpose. So we may with safety claim that social intercourse will not only serve to improve the rough and unpolished students, but also to prevent social retrogression on the part of those students who have had the very best social advantages be- fore entering college. I cannot refrain from believing that, in every congenial home or family circle, there are certain restraining, enobling and elevating influences which can never be felt in the presence of the most select company of cadets.
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380 THE CLEMSON COLLEGE CHRONICLE I wish to say in reply to one of my friend ' s suggestions that if there is any professor on our faculty who cannot en- tertain a party of students in his home without showing par- tiality and thereby embarrassing the unfortunate students, he is not worthy of his title, and should be kicked out of the college. If I felt that our professors and their families were made of such material as that, I would leave here to-morrow and refuse to accept a diploma bearing their signatures. My friend sees another insurmountable difficulty in the fact that the average cottage on the Hill is small and can- not comfortably receive a section or a class. I admit that this is a disadvantage; but I recall the fact that in the Bible there is a passage which beautifully illustrates the fact that each person is only expected to give an account of his indi- vidual abilities, and it makes no difference whether he pos- sesses one, three, or five talents. So each professor is only expected to do what he can in this matter. If he cannot entertain a section or a class, let him take five, ten, fifteen or such number of students as will correspond with his indi- vidual circumstances. I would like to write more on this subject, but lack of space prevents it ; so I will close by saying and emphasizing that social intercourse between students and facultv is de- sirable, feasible, and beneficial. E. B. Boykix. Richard O ' Bryan — Schoolmaster I le was an austere man, this country school-master, and his motto was, Spare the rod and spoil the child. Me taught in a small, two-room lop-sided building which faced the public road, was bounded on the east by a dense swamp through which flowed I ' eg branch. On the north and west was a dense forest in which the bare footed urchins, with
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