Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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Cl. EE CM B Among the places whee Concert Iven thin year, were Orange, X. J., New Haven, New v'o-k, Jcnkintown, P.in:« toi. Chan-be s mr, . Washing:on and four times in Philadelphia, p'us a Glee Club Fe»:ival Philadelphia, featuring Howard, Hampton and Lincoln Glee Club . The Re ital at l.inco'n was nivei on May 17. Brooklyn, given at MR. JAMES E. DORSEY is Director LINCOLN NEWS

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26 LINCOLN NEWS THEATHEI8T THE ATHEI8T small, lias ils radicals, ils agnostics, its pessimists, and ils atheists; and our institution is not an exception. Thera are those who would have the atheist banished from our Christian institution, fearing that his arguments will change other young men. and cause them to follow in the atheistic path. There arc also those who claim that the atheist doesn't deserve to en- joy the privilege of attending an insti- tution that was founded through the hard labor of Christian men. The question that now arises is: must wc keep him or must wc let him go? If we banish him we arc doing injustice to humanity, and if we keep him we arc doing injustice to the youths who come into contact with him. Taking the atheist into considera- tion. he is part of us. with all of his skepticism, all of his pessimism, and all of his radicalism, lie is essentially a part of our make-up; without him we would he minus of an essential ele- ment that makes up the intellectual compound. If we analyze carefully the contents of the atheistic argument do we not find that some of it is valid? Some may say then, if his argument is valid that we all should become atheists, pessimists, radicals. No! Validity doesn't always assert truth; an argument mav be true yet invalid. The radical generally puts forth the valid argument minus the truth, while the Bible champion places his truth in an invalid form. The young man then from Christian homes should seek to place his true argument in a valid form. In our “Bull Sessions. the atheist generally wins with the majority on his side, and leaves our poor hearer of Christian principles drowned in the rolling waves of criticism. Seemingly, every one in the midst belongs to a universal order of atheism, and our “Bible Champion in the Bull Session feels himself a failure. When he ana- lyzes the situation, he finds that it was all his fault for failure, lie hadn’t prepared. Then if he has the grit and courage he sails forth with harder work and more determination. In this way the atheist has helped him. The atheist causes us to consider questions that scarcely would sug- gest themselves to us. lie causes us to study to combat his witty ami timely arguments, lie causes us to strive to pass his eloquence in speech that we may be heard above him. and after all lie cannot hurt, he can only help. S. G. STKVF.NS. ’31 LIFE’8 PATHWAY8 Life is hut a rocky pathway. Coursing straight o’er hill and dale: Mortal beings arc the travelers Faring o'er this tiring trail. But there are many other pathways Leading from the road of life; Smooth and tempting, easier troad. Luring only on to vice. Hearken, then. Oh. Men of Lincoln! Heed to what I have to say. Tread not on these other by-paths. Tread the straight and narrow way. E. G. ROBERTS THE 8TAR GAZER As I gaze into the cold, black, field of sky. Bedecked with teaming points of sil- ver light. I watch the shining disks swing truly on Through countless miles of frigid, airless void. I wonder, if in God's kind Drovidcnce His pleasure was to bless them as our own. To grace them, with a cultured race of men Whose knowledge might surpass our paltry kin. As far as wc the cave man’s simple home. I wonder if the whirling nebula That seems a screen to veil the upper realms Is but a ball of gaseous space Expanding in the raroncss of the void. Who knows, hut it may he a system freed From intercourse with creatures crude as wc. Whose principles of culture wo would mar; Adulterate its great profundity. The Heavens truly elevate the mind. It leads to thoughts of greater things. Oh. why docs God smile down upon us here Who manifest such .feeble, weakly faith? Why do wc gain His providential care While worlds await His guidance and concern? RICHARD LOWRIE. ’30 BOTTLED QERIW8 The largest assemblage of living germs are believed to be in the posses- sion of a famous Vienna bacteriol- ogist. By special permission, the col- lection has been placed at the Uni- versity of Chicago in a special labora- tory. Billions and billions of germs arc estimated to constitute this large collection, enough to start numerous epidemics. The germs, however, will not be in a position to escape and harm humanity. It was once staled that the influenza epidemic was caus- ed by just such a happening, that is. the escaping of a collection of the flu germ. The main purpose of these germs is to try an experiment for the extrac- tion of certain serums to be used as a cure for the disease they spread. Thus, we turn the harmful into the harmless, and instead of being a men- ace to mankind, their purposes are meant to be more or less a blessing. It will no doubt, take vast quantities of these germs to gel a small amount of serum, as in the case of the rattle- snake. Many snake farms arc estab- lished for the simple purpose of se- curing the desired scrum. Probably in a few years, there will he established germ farms, should this experiment prove successful. On the other hand, should these germs get beyond control, the entire mass of the earth's people will he wiped away, no doubt. In this collection are such germs as those which cause typhus, typhoid fever, pneumonia, and tuberculosis, together with numerous other well- known germs. THOUGHT8 Thoughts—that sounds deep and philosophical, doesn’t it? But what I am about to write will not be a philo- sophical treatise. I hone that it will lie what I had hoped it would lie, a rec- ord of my most recent thoughts. Ordinary laziness is no virtue. Many of the world’s greatest invention's have been fostered with the idea of saving our steps, our labor, our time. The genuineness of the world and I he geniuses have helped to give us the onportunily of being lazy. lie a deep, thorough and searching thinker and you can well afford to be lazy. Life as it is, does not allow us to express ourselves as wc would like to, hence wc must find outlet for self- cxnression wherever possible. My friend, tho Audubon man, lies himself to Lite end of a rope and slins over the edge of the Hudson Palisades, a perpendicular cliff. 500 feet high. Self-expression is a necessity, but don't do it haphazardly. And there he dangles with nothing but air to stand on. Then lie unstraps his kit and gets a nest—self-express- ion is a sort of safety valve. Should Ford and Rockefeller pool their holdings they could hardly tempt me to thus coax death to come and get me. I don’t know that I have ever heard of any heathen people worship- ping a spring. Why? I don't know! The movies are such magnificent li- ars that when they exhibit a man do- ing tumbling tricks on a steel girder half a mile above the United Stales I lake it with a big grandma slice of in- credulity. But some men do thrive on peril and would rather flirt with death than with a folly beauty. I wonder if the idle rich are as lazy as other idle people are? One could imagine such men astride a cyclone or throwing a ieg over a Kansas twister with oriental com- posure. Any wav I am not dangling at Hie rope till the hangsman officiates. Really. I don’t see how a man can be loo lazy to drive (he car that takes him to the club, and still be ambitious enough to play 27 holes of golf cov- ering about nine miles of tramp, tramp, tramp. U. S. T. HEARD IN OUR CLA88 ROOM Prof.: What is a natural resource? Unknown: Life saving. 4 4 • Prof.: Who was Medea? Soph.: Wasn’t she the lady with the snakes? • • • Prof.: I can lend you everything but brains! LINCOLN SENIOR8 S elf-respccling E fficicnl L audablc F riendly R eady to help E ver pleasing L eaders in all I nfringing spirit A I all cost N otable T rust wort by A. L. CROSSOX G .M. JONES

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