Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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As a Man Reacleth w The self-centered student buys an Annual and hurries to his room. Making sure that no one will break in upon his study, he looks eagerly for the company with which his picture was taken. He finds the group and scrutinizes it closely. He notes how his picture stands forth from the others. He seeks out his name and wonders why it was not placed higher on the list. He is in other groups, and he considers carefully which picture shows him off the best. H , V . Without solving this weighty matter, he begins a hurried search for his girl's picture. He notes with pride how she also dominates her group. He frowns at the chap to her right, and smiles at the one on her left. He seeks out her picture in other groups and decides after deliberation that none does her justice Then, he turns the pages of the book and reads every roast and eyes each cartoon. Not a hit at him, huh! .He wonders about this, for he had expected to be Hbawled out. The jokes seemt stale, the cartoons far-fetched, the write-ups passable, but hardly more. He goes over it again to make sure that it is not as good as the Annual the year before. Then he puts it aside, saying Gee, what a chance! ' Now the wise student takes his Annual and seating .him- self in an easy chair, gives himself up to its interesting story as a whole. He tests the binding and considers the cover. He notes the arrangement and plan of the book, the quality of the paper and class of engravingsg the designs and sketches. The artistic effect of each in turn receives his attention. This picture and that cartoon attract him, and he reflects upon the labor required to obtain each. A Taking plenty of time, he reads it from cover to cover and lays it away with the thought of the pleasant associations that a perusal of its pages will call to mind in the years to come. Each finds that in the book which is part of himself. Hel is there in spirit with the story which it tells. History it is, though hardly serious, for it is not dealing with facts accomplished but rather history in the making. It is a book of days that are rich with passing qualities, large with values that are to be. And each may find himself, his part, his social self, if he but reads between the lines. 5

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-:'G'?'5' 4-517 -511 Q ,,..: , T. M. IDEN f i Tom Iden, as he has always been known to the writer, was born for the world's good. From his earliest life he has been on the side of the right and has been peculiarly guided in finding the right place to render his service-a service of spirit rather than that of a definite program. The value of his work has never been so much in the specific service as it has been in the man who was behind the service. Tom Iden had a rarely beautiful childhood, and holding on to the spirit of that childhood heimoved straight toward the goal of manhood. He has realized his best impulses while others have only felt the fleeting touch' of their power. He has put into life the best of which he was capable without thought of the value of the service he was rendering, and he has ,learned the secret of helping people to realize the best there is in them. Professor Iden's early life was spent well out in the country. His early education was secured in a rural school At fifteen he entered the village school and later went to B tl. C ll u er o ege. Here he began his great life work that has resulted in such untold good t .. o a vast number of young men, and through them, to the world at large. Since then he has had the advantage of foreign study and travel, but the thing that has given him his power h b . as een the self-sacrificing devotion to the best ther ' ' ' Q e 1S in life. His whole life has been a preparation for the work he has been do in in th 'K I g e ansas State Normal School for the young men tnrough the Upper Room. To this school he came some fourteen years ago and now it would scarcely be the State Normal 'th , wi out him. Professor Iden is now Dean of the C ll D o ege epartment and has Worked his way into the heart of the institution. 1 0 : ,avg 4.13 ' 'QiRm,,.-..s. LV ,-