Littleton College - Chatterbox Yearbook (Littleton, NC)

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220 THE CHATTERBOX. Vtle go to college that we may be broadened in thought. Solving the problems that we solve in our school days helps us to solve the little every-day problems of life. We are al- ways impressed with the gentleness and modesty of a scholar- a little learning is a dangerous thing 5 but a great deal is one of the best things in life. To go to college four years is to find out how little can be learned in that timeg but if we try We can learn how to obtain mastery of intellectual tools and know Where to look for what We Want. We can gain no little by paying attention with eagerness to those who know more than we can ever hope to learn. And lastly, our aim in going to college should be that ive may be of much practical value to those who have not had our advantages.

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THE CHATTERBOX. 219 one to help and comfort her'as she does when she first enters college. If there is no one in the higher classes ready to give this help, then she learns her first lesson in self-reliance--an excellent thing for her. The first welcome extended to the new students is generally given by the Young W'omen's Christian Association. This organization is to-day the most ,aggressive and most potent moral influence in college-life. Its beneficent work has spread to almost every college worthy of the name. But the Christian Association by no means represents all of the religious activities of the college. There are regular services held by those who give this work special attention. There are courses of study ethical merely, others Biblical and distinctly religious. VVhen the nature of the va- riety of religious activities is taken into consideration along with the fact that more than half the students are professing Christians, it becomes evident that the moral atmo-sphere of the college is good for those who seek the best it offers. Girls go to college incidentally to take a definite, discursive or profound course of study and to earn a diploma. What a girl studies in college, her recitations, examinations, her degree, although most important and most impressive in the eyes of her kindred and friends, are not in reality the most serviceable assets of her four years in college. She acquires by means of study and by means of drill, a mental discip- line and intellectual force that are to stand her in stead through the years of the future. To acquire the habit of do- ing certain things at certain times to the best of womanly ability is worth more to a girl than all the progress she can make in Physics and Mathematics. To become permeated with a love of good literature, to make friends with great authors, to know a good book from a bad one, to grow into a familiar acquaintance with one's mother-tongue and to get some knowledge of other tongues as they are spoken to-day are among the endowments that a college training bestows.

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THE CHATTERBOX. 221 The Aims and Standards ofthe College Magazine. CLEE REEL. I think every one will say that the chief aim of the College Magazine is to benefit the student. This it very Wonderfully does by increasing literary in- terest. What student will not bestir himself to write an un- usually fine paper when he thinks there is a probability of its finding its way to the Magazine? And in the consequent search through the world of knowledge and literature he un- consciously falls in love with the beauty he finds stored away there. But besides this desire to produce a good story or article there comes, from comparing the dihferent magazines a desire to see his own second to none 5- there is an increase in col- lege spirit-a spirit of loyalty and devotion which fits one to go out in the world and be helpful and make a success of everything in which he becomes involved. . However, in o-rder that the aim of the magazine may be realized it must have certain standards. Every magazine should have, and live up to, such a standard that its com- ing will always be hailed with delight. Very much here dee pends upon the critics in encouraging all that is beautiful, instructive, humorous, or natural. Especially should these qualities be found in the literary department. Let everything there be literary in fact, as well as by position. But shall we let the standard drop as soon as we pass over the literary department? Some seem to have gotten the idea that we may, that just so the things in the literary depart- ment are literary the general tone and spirit may conform to a much lower standard, for instance, in the joke depart- ment, anything that will make one laugh. A magazine which