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Page 19 text:
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they greet you there. The manner in which you open the door is noted and remarked upon; the way you walk upstairs, and the way you walk down again; the way you shake hands, and the way you leave the college halls. All of these are occasions for criticism, as well as each particular. Your walk is criticized; you take too short steps, you take too long ones, you walk too fast, or perhaps you walk too slow, more likely the latter, but anyhow you do not walk just according to the latest and most approved Delsarte method. Nor do you walk just as physical culture says you should, and in truth vou could not walk naturally if you tried. Your table-talk is criti¬ cized and your general talk is critized. Fault is found with your taste. Your peculiar likings for people are wondered at and discussed both privately and publicly. You are criticized from the point of your manhood and womanhood. You are criticized as a student. You are criticized as a Christian. In truth, it matters not what your position, you are sometime, somewhere and by someone criticized. The students’ criticism is cpiite wide in scope. He also criticizes what he hears and what he reads. The lecturer realizes that no audience will notice the grammatical error or mispronounced word so quickly as the student audience. Here the student is apt to lose as much and more than he gains. The moral truth of the lecture should be that which would leave with us the most abiding lesson. Although clear, simple and well-chosen language adds to the beauty of the thought, the student should guard his critical mind and not lose the force of a truth because it has not been exact in its gram¬ matical construction or elegant in its rhetoric. Only the critical student will become a scholar, but he should study to be a true critic and avoid that spirit which is repulsive to all. The hyper¬ critical person not only loses his popularity, but treads upon the finer sensibilities of all with whom he comes in contact. 13
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The department that is too often neglected by die better class of students, and which again too often sadly shows this neglect, is the athletic department. Be it right or wrong, the fact still remains that a college is judged to a great extent among other colleges by the athletic team she sends out from among her students. Very often the best men of the college will stand off and criticize their team because they have not won a victory, have not played fairly, or in some way have disgraced themselves in the eyes of these holy men. But do you know that you are just as much to blame as any man on the team because you have not given your presence and influence to strengthen and purify their work? A man that is not willing to give his assistance to the athletics of ' his college has no light to criticize them. And, furthermore, he is losing a good and valuable part of his college life. A strong body, a quick perception and correspondingly quick decision, strong nerves and a controlled temper, are all results of enthusiastic athletics. A position on an athletic team is an honor to anyone obtaining it. There is no one in a college who deserves more honor than he who has success¬ fully captained a team through a season of hard-fought battles. Not only the captain, but every man on the team is deserving of special honor. He has sacrificed his time, his class-room work to a certain extent, and frequently most of his social enjoyments, for what he con¬ siders the best interest of his college. So let us have more charity for our teams. Let us honor them more highly, and cheer them on with our personal help and influ¬ ence. Success to our college athletics! Nowhere and among no class of people is the art or vice of criticism so highly developed as among students. In our Literary Societies the offices of first and second critic are filled by members of the societies who are elected to those positions. Those offices are not desirable because the critics are not self-ap pointed. But Society is not the only place where you meet the first and second ciitic; in fact, every hall you enter has not only two such officers, but it has many self-appointed ones. Ton first enter the college and 12
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