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EDITORIAL -unu- In devoting many of these pages to Nature, we have had in mind not only the forces and creatures of air, earth, and water, but also the relation between them and man. We wish that these pages may express a strong devotion to the primitive, a sense of infinite sympathy with all the world, an understanding which our school life has fostered. Whether our education be that of the text book and schoolhouse or that of the river and field, we break the barriers which convention too often places between us, and become simply brothers when Nature's call has sounded. Then it is that primitive instincts break their bonds and cry in answer. The tenement-bred child is thrilled at the sight of the ocean at moonrise, or hushed by the grandeur of vast reaches of uninhabited desert. their charm being just as potent for him as for those reared under their influence. But what is the reason for this unfailing bond of sympathy between us? VVhy does a subtle understanding exist between the dweller on the heights and the dweller in the shadows, between the sailor of seas and the tiller of land, between the arctic explorer and the gentle lady gardener? Why? In very truth, we are all of one great family, Mother Nature's. Old as the hills the idea may be. but it still rings true, we are one and all a. vital, living part of Nature herself. Startling indeed is such an idea to him who has heretofore considered Nature-lovers high-brow. Accusing indeed must be such a reali- zation to the school master who has sternly repressed every indication of spring fever in his charges. Yet this is no new fact, nor do we attempt to present it as such. From time innnemorial, men have conquered the elements, studied them, immortalized them in literature, not with the curiosity inspired by an utterly foreign object, but with the understanding with which one contem- plates in a fellow-being the same traits which make up one's own personality. Only by realizing this relationship can we understand the instincts and im- pulses which make the whole world kin. Fundamental and all-inclusive as this truth is, there is yet a lnore obvious motive for our making this a Nature annual, a realization that Nature, even in its narrowest sense, plays an important, not.-to-be-overlooked part in our every- day lives. That very spring fever which often makes school almost un- bearable to those afflicted is a most natural outcome of our most natural desire to become a part of the World of growing things at our doors. From early in grammar school until late in our college life, our compositions reveal perfectly how great is the influence of the out-of-doors. Such subjects as Fishing as a Pastiinef' The Pleasures of lee-skatin g. and A Day in the Fields, receive a far heartier response from young writers than does any other class of sub- jects. Our reading, our pastimes, our daily programs refiect the same desire l17l
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