New England College of Optometry - Scope Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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THE SCOPE If there is Absolute Squareness in School and in Manners, it will not be Difficult Matter to Play Fair when You enter the Business or Professional World. john's father had a large store. john had hnished college, and was ready for work. What would you like to do, my boy? questioned his father. john's answer was ready: I would like to go into business with you. Well, I am glad of that, but how are you going, by the stairs or the elevator? john was puzzled till father explained. There are two ways of getting up, by climbing or by being lifted without any work on your part. I can lift you into a place in the office with me at once, but you would only have the position without knowing the business. If you begin as a clerk and climb to the office, you will be fitted to take the place with me. What shall it be, john -the stairs or the elevator? I'll choose to climb, sir, was johns sensible answer. 'lWaiter, said the indignant customer, What does this mean? Yesterday I was served for the same price with a portion of chicken twice the size of this. Where did you sit? Over by the window. Then that accounts for it. We always give people who sit by the windows large portions. It's an advertisement. It should be placarded over business, big and little. The art of business is the art of being honest. There is too much veneer in life, too little of that solid quality we name honesty. Old furniture is at a premium. It has the real stuff in it. There is too much of makeshift in building, the substitution of inferior for goods of real value. Old building were made to stand. Modern buildings are too often made to sell. There is one thing I want you young men to remember as long as you live. It is this: Whenever you observe a group of men ordering the drinks, trading chimney-sweep stories, spitting out the profanity, be very sure that these men are rarely or never Big Business. They will generally be found to be a bunch of small-place Nobodys, jigging along on the way to Nowhere. Big Business is sitting out there in the car with good books and good thoughts and keeps itself away from that kind of society. A California philosopher expresses the hope that in his next incarnation he shall be half Irish and half Hebrew. For, he says, The Irishman is happy as long as ne has a dollar, and the Hebrew always has it. It is all right to spend money to make characterg it is all wrong to spend character to make money. In business and profession, be sure that honesty is the policy and be what you appear to be. Beware of Short Cuts in Your Religious Life. There is One Thing Which the Almighty Despises, it is a Hypocrite. The world is full of men and women who think they can cheat God by the short cut. An old datky got up one night at a revival meeting and said: Brudders an' sisters, you knows an' I knows dat I ain't been what I oughter been. Ise robbed hen roosts ani stole hawgs an' tole lies, an' got drunk, an' slashed folks wi' man razoeg but I thank the Lord der's one thing I ain't nebber doneg I ain't nebbe lost mah religion. American life at present seems to be afflicted with a plague of liberty. There is so much hollowness and unreality, so much veneer in character and work, that it behooves us to preach aloud the gospel of thoroughness. A short time ago some workmen were engaged in trying to remove a piece of old London Wall. They tried with hammers, then with pick-axes, then they had to borrow the help of some stalwart navvies, but to no purpose, the walls seemed to smile at all their effortsg at last they were obliged to have recourse to boring, and blowing it up like a piece of solid rock. That is hardly the way they build now-a-days, for a man might almost push over some of our brick walls with his hands. I4l

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THE SCOPE SHORT CUTS By DR. THEODORE F. KLEIN Those who have been over the road know that there is no short cuts to success. We know that success cannot be bought in a book. It must be lived in a life. But each on- coming generation must learn its own lesson, purchase its own knowledge, with the coin of experience. Cardinal Logue, was asked how many sermons a preacher could prepare in a week. Smiling, Cardinal Logue answered: lf the preacher is a man of extraordinary ability, he can prepare one sermong if a man of average ability, twog it a blockhead, ten or twelve. Beware of Short Cuts in Securing an Education. There are two classes of college graduates-those who get a college education and those who get a college diploma-those who did not short cut and those who did. Are you educated? Perhaps you are graduated. Some people are graduated, but not educated, while some are educated, but have never been graduated. A university training alone never educated one, nor did the lack of such training ever keep a person from being educated, if he had the right stuff in him. Education is not information. The walking encyclopedia may be a joke. Education is inspiration. It is selfareliance. lt is self-supporting. It is self-adjusting. It is integrity and character. Graduate, if possible, by all means, even if the price you pay is blood and sweat and tears and agony and midnight kerosene, But whether graduated or not, strive to be educated. When james A. Garfield was president of an Ohio College a man brought for entrance as a student his son, for whom he wished a shorter course than the regular one. 'The boy can never take all that in, said the father. He wants to get thru quicker. Can you arrange it for him? G, yes. said Mr. Garfield. He can take a shorter course, it all depends on what you want to make of him. When nature wants to make an oak she takes a hundred years, but it takes only two months to make a squash. Wisdom never opens her doors to those who are not willing to pay the price of admission, There are no bargains at her counters, no short cuts to her goal, Pay the price or leave the goods, is her motto. Beware of Short Cuts in Your Personal Appearance. No seedy looking people wanted here! So runs a sign over the employees en- trance of a prosperous business house. This may sound callous to the man or woman who is down and out, looking for a job, but it is simply common sense business philos- ophy. The man who hires all the sales people for one of the largest retail stores in Chicago says: While the routine of application is in every case strictly adhered to. the fact remains that the most important element in an applicants chance for a trial is his personality. Your personal appearance, your dress. your manner, everything about you, the way in which you keep yourself groomed, how you carry yourself, what you say, how you act, all these things are to you what the show windows of a merchants store are to his busi- ness, the way he advertises and displays his goods. He knows that the people who pass his store will get a pretty good idea of the class and quality of the goods he keeps, of the sort of concern he runs, from what they see in the window. Your appearance will be taken as an advertisement of what you are. It is constantly telling people whether you are a success or a failure, and where people place you in their estimation will have a powerful influence upon your career. f3fl

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THE SCOPE It took Gibbon nineteen years to complete his greatest book, The Decline anl Fall of the Roman Empire, Yet some of us throw up our hands when success does not heave into sight after nineteen weeks of half-hearted laborl Boy wonders have existed. But in some cases the crown of glory comes only after years of patience, steady application and unceasing toil. We read much about the flash of inspiration, the breathless rushing here, there and everywhere, and, finally the glorious and dramatic conclusion amidst the blowing of trumpets and the plaudits of the .is- sembled multitude. We read of these thingsfrbut we don't see them often. On the contrary we have Carlyle completing his greatest book in his forty-second year: Dante finishing his at fifty-three, after eighteen years of work on that one alonel Nothing about these things that look like Hashes in the pan. Nothing but hard work. No short-cuts to fame here. These men realized that slap-work does not make for success. So they chose to toil rather than to spin. Others in their time went their own sweet way. But the difference between their achievements is the difference between a shanty and a monument. So don't grumble, as it takes time. Results count. Dirt, .llc ll., lPasoallm'lli'lli1e 'llieaeheir llseertures lP'friove Very Hlllumiiaating The students are greatly indebted to Dr. Klein for securing the services of the eminently renowned -I, I. Pascal, M. D., A. B., to teach Physiological Optics at M, S. O. Dr, Pascals presentation of fro the average studentj a thoroughly dry and disinteresting subject is most commendable. He possesses the faculty, or gift, which must be inherent in the successful conscientious professor, of knowing when the student is following the trend of thought, and he takes it upon himself to see that each student gets as much out of each lecture as the latter is capable of absorbing. As a result. this years graduating class is more fully equipped. from the point of knowledge imparted to them, to follow the science of Optometry than any class which has heretofore matriculated at the Massa- chusetts College. We sincerely wish that arrangements can be made to have Dr. Pascal continue as a member of the faculty for the benefit of Optometry in general, and for future students who will attend M. S. O. in particular. The seniors rise to thank you Doctor. wily? l5l