George Fox University - L'Ami Yearbook (Newberg, OR)

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I Ami 1935 Pluck Pluck wins ! It always wins ! Though days be slow And nights be dark ' twixt days that come and go. Still pluck will win ; its average is sure ; He gains the prize who will the most endure : Who faces issues ; he who never shirks ; Who waits and watches, and who always works. WHEN our parents were students at Pacific college, they remember seeing these lines mounted as a motto and hung in the hall where all might see. But in the changing of the years, somehow the words have disappeared. The chang- ing of the year ! Has it brought a change in values, too % I wonder if Pluck still wins. Is the loss of the motto typical of a greater loss; that of stability and charac- ter 4 ? It seems to me that there are three main struggles which a student has to face in college. The first is an economic one. How often have we seen our classmates con- quer this difficulty ! Such students have to give up much of social activity and often the joy of participating in student body offices; but here pluck wins, he gains the prize who will the most endure. Another battle is the one against self. Self-discipline becomes a new and potent factor in the development of the individual upon his arrival at college. Whereas at home when a student has to complete a given piece of work by a certain time, his mo- ther or someone else comes to his aid ; he is dismayed at college to find that he, him- self, is responsible for his work. Sometimes it is very difficult for him to adjust himself to such a rigid schedule as college demands. But here again, pluck wins, he gains the Prize . . . who faces issues . . . and who always works. Lastly, there is the struggle of personality. So many things have contributed to what we call personality — original endowment, environment, training, and such, that diverse conflicts are created within the idividual. Among those we find the struggle for dominance, for attention, for power ; as well as that against shyness, sup- pression, and a feeling of inferiority. Each student finds himself in a personality conflict in the larger struggle for socialization. But even here, pluck wins ! Its average is sure . Students, look up ! Though days be slow and nights be dark . . . still pluck will win ! — Dorene Larimer. 22

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