Weber State University - Acorn Yearbook (Ogden, UT)

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ft JUcorit of tfje (HHeber tafee Scabemp gour ©ton If your neighbor keeps his fortune on the off-side of the fence. Do your silent dreams of envy to help lighten your expense ? Does the rattle of his sheckels sound as music to your ears? Let the jingle pass unheeded. — 'tis the fool that interferes. He has doubtless many mimics who can loudly sing his praise; Don’t let such attract your notice, spend your favor where it pays. He has aid at every elbow and perhaps can’t see you now; — Does the Law ask you to greet him with a hundred-dollar bow? Don’t give way to grief and sorrow if a comrade turns you down: Any next-door smile is apt to be Tomorrow’s broadest frown. Don’t lay plans for any future on a politician’s grasp Let him charm some other song-bird if he wants to play the asp. Yes. the rose today is handsome but its beauty fades and wilts: Baby’s everybody’s angel while he wears the infant’s kilts Tom, we know, is fit to worship in the light lie stands today. But tomorrow finds you wond’ring why your thoughts have been astray. Can you deem a man a scoundrel for his side-step of Mistrust? Can you scorn a man, once cheerful, for his actions of disgust? Since Experience has taught him what is hot and what is cool. If he burned his hand last season, must he always play the fool? You may have a loved confidant as a link in Friendship's chain : Should he prove himself a traitor, will you trust that link again ? Yea. ’tis hard to lose a comrade but let such loss be a guide ; — Chance Association tells you with whom you had best confide.

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tClje gcorn of tije Wtbtv italic gtabemp ever they bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever they loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. He recognizes this priesthood and honors it. There are certain relations between God and man as we here see. There are certain rights which He has over man and some of these, man can demand from God if he but put himself in a condition to receive them. God himself has said that surely He will do nothing but what He will reveal His mind to His ser- vants, the prophets. He did this in ancient times when the people needed his word no more than we do today, so why is it not just as reasonable to believe that He does reveal it today? Religion after all is nothing more than God’s will made known unto man and to the extent that we think, speak and act in conformity with His will, are we religious. —Belva Woodmansee, ’07. I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty. I awoke and found that life was Duty Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on. poor heart, unceasingly; And thou shalt find thy dreams to be A truth and noon day light to thee. —Ellen Strugxs Hooper. A good man possesses a kingdom. Whom they have injured, they also hate. No one knows what he can do till he tries. It matters not how long you live, but how well. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his leart. —Dean Swift. [9

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W)t itorn of tfje 32Hebtr tafee gcafcemp Kv’ry bright light has its contrast, ev'ry sunbeam has its shade. — Ivv'ry morning has its evening whence the twilight comes to fade; Life is brighter for the sunshine that succeeds the gloomy rain. — Pleasure finds a greater welcome as a healing balm to pain. Virtue is the Queen of Passion when she's face to face with Vice. — Thus the Will must come to action where Temptation must entice; Ivv'ry instinct has foundation, be it built on Love or Hate. But at times the Situation solves the problem just too late. So the man sweats 'neath his burden as he climbs the steep up-hill. And the selfish next-door neighbor puts her own share on the bill; Thus each kindly Reputation treads upon the jealous snake. But that climb toward Salvation is for God and Friendship’s sake. All the world talks up your Friendship where you stand around to hear. But the greatest Generosity must bear the backward sneer. Bv’ry neighbor knows your mission and can laud the Good Advice. While he pay his own tuition on the next-door neighbor's price. Thus does Gossip play the Judas in the broad cloak of Deceit, While Humility, oft stranded, travels barefoot down the street: Let the Gay-boy” mock the victim with the graceless, backward slurs. — Class them shades of utter darkness as with ev’ry his or her’s. Should you wish to gain an object, work to-day and gain it now ; Don't let some benighted hypocrite come up and tell you how. Don’t let some cheap parrot tell you What to do” and How you Can. If you live for Independence, be an Independent man. —Walter Emmett ill