r Misconception of Natural Law Laws o ft r r. r I Editor University Chronicle I 1 t THERE is no expression no matter how how trivial no matter how deeply entangled entangled entangled en en- tangled in the petty strife of individuality individuality d duality but what what something may be bel l learned arned from it and therefore is worthy of more or less consideration The earnest article entitled II Is Is It Fair fo found nd in the columns of your last issue furnished pleasure for the speaker to w which ich it referred because the author pointed unknowingly however to one very very striking fact facto After arguing about babblers limitation limitation limitation limita limita- tion of powers eloquent expression borrowed terms popularity etc etc 7 which is i. i waste aste of energy and only a tart oart art of the greatest folly in the wor workings ings r of f humanity it is stated that the name secluded monks is not always fitting to those hose who unassumingly and without prestige keep a noiseless tenor on their i way ay to progress Why is it that this body of workers are really without prestige and still on their way to progress progress not not on the road 4 of progress I 1 readily admit that much i good has been derived from societies like this but if they would attach to their constitution th the foll following wing stanza and decorate their labors with its meaning meaning mean mean- ing ng harmony would replace much discord discord discord dis dis- cord and their boat would lose most of its friction V TS t. t j Y They about a womans woman's sphere J As though it had a limit j Theres There's not a place in in eaith or heaven n Theres There's not a task to mankind given given Theres There's not a blessing or a woe t Theres There's not a whisper yes or no Theres There's not a life or death or birth That has a feather featherweight weight of worth Without a woman in in it it The organization has been working j i for years and when are they going to gain prestige I It t will be in the tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row of the future and that prestige will continue as it has so far far far-a a chased shadow The reader asks Why Because Because Because Be Be- cause they are working against the laws of Nature the inevitable result of which h his is that they meet with great friction and do not realize the economy of effort which they should This friction lays hold of them in such a way that they cannot give credit for all they receive but Nature charges them with full amount In the history of the Zeta Gama and all like societies it has often been difficult to get a quorum Why Oh members few and indifferent Why Because students have not had right incentive to become members and be active members We all agree that before a person can really study any subject or prepare any part on a program that person must like the work If he does not like it he can only have attention to his work which is forced directly by his will power and such continued efforts tend rather to the minimum than the maximum of knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge and then what is gained gaine is mostly knowledge not wisdom What is the unit of civilization It is not the man neither is it the woman The welfare of any nation depends on the welfare of of the home that home that unit formed by mOan nian man and woman but humanity humanity humanity human human- ity is slow in seeing it and we find occasionally even at this late age such institutions as II schools for boys only II schools for girls only If societies for boys only and for girls only People may as well try to stop all the rivers ih p from flowing into the ocean as to r attempt to do away with social gather gatherings gatherings gatherings ings of boys and girls and where there is the greatest interest there is the most r passive attention the result of which is the greatest wisdom So when any monk gathering or nun gathering gets in the way of the true normal look up the word normal gathering it is like an insect placing itself on the rail of a transcontinental transcontinental transcontinental railroad where if the train comes along loaded with passenger it may get one of its antennae mashed Now it may be unscientific and unfriendly for forthe forthe forthe the train to give no heed to this insect which undoubtedly has the rheumatism and cant can't get off the track and if our II Zeta Gama Boy were the conductor of the train he would defer action until the matter was thoroughly considered for he would not be out of the line of propriety Let us look at life in the true light and not be the victims of habit and irrational irrational irrational irra irra- conclusions If we do this we will no longer traverse the earth with th that t long earnest look but will mingle our progressive efforts under the banner of united humanity k Speaker e ker of the No Normal at f. f J