Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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'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

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CPHB Nassau H121iAi,D T1'IE IJINISH word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, 'Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner,.', On the purely intellectual side of college life, I repeat, the growing-up process has been less noticeable. Let me illustrate: the recording of absences against honors candidates was dis- carded in the belief that these men would surely be serious enough to attend their class exercises with proper regularity, that they had outgrown the necessity of policing and petty schoolboy rollcalls, with penalties for absence. The faeulty's belief has proved in far too many cases to be merely an assump- tion. The privilege has been outrageously abused by honors candidatesg their sense of responsibility is not yet sufliciently matureg they are less serious than they were thought to beg they are not grown up. The undergraduate is not yet sufficiently grown up to give his best energies to his scholastic duties, or even to reading, during this his one chance of a lifetime. If we examine the records of tQ6l