Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

Page 30 text:

1916 CLASS DAY COBIDIITTEE

Page 29 text:

THE NASSAU I'IERALD them operative in midwinter and alsof cover non-athletic activi- ties. The authorities at least havexdiot. been marking time. Wfhat of the undergraduate? . 1 think the general student works harder than he used to. I ani confident that the average second or third group man in 1916 has not only done more work but has got more out of it than the average second or third group man in my day. 1 do not think, however, that this should be counted unto him greatly for righteousness, we worked just as hard at courses that in- terested us. The difference is that you in 1916 have had more courses to awaken your interest and in particular you have had behind you a better and a stricter scholastic administration. You have certainly read more than we-the records of the library show that. Have you read to any better purpose? Some of you have, but the rank and file? For I cannot help wondering, since college lifexas less com- plex twenty years ago and we therefore had more leisure, whether we who used the library as it was in those days did not know the library better and did not read more slowly and more fruitfully, less feverishly, less carelessly, than you who are busied about so many things. The reply will be made of course that the very quantity of required reading in these preceptorial times has led you into hasty and slovenly habits-in other VVoonnow XVi1,sox '79

Page 31 text:

'THE Nassau HERALD Words, that it is the faculty,s fault. fLet us admit that some of your assignments have been entirely too longg but did you take the time necessary to get seriously at the heart of. the books assigned? Or was it not too often a case of trying to make one hour do the work of two? Some men within my own ob- servation are too short of time to cut the pages of their books decently with a paper-knife, and therefore result to the brutal forcfinger. I cannot help wondering, I say, whether in the whole we did not read better because We had more of what the present under- graduate seems not to have at all-leisure. A college is neither a quick-lunch counte1', nor a mend-them-while-you-wait estab- lishment. And education, unless it be a veneer and a smatter- ing, is a process that demands leisure. You cannot hurry it without skimping, nor can you be educated in a scramble. HI know a wise manf, wrote Lord Bacon, that had it for at by- f'NwfI'f::T'1?' 5 .ggi ST. PATllTCK,S IDAY P-kann, 1916-T1-In START