Show WE may take it for granted that everyone desires to make his or her life count for as much as possible The young man or woman who has not nota a desire to make life happier and nobler both for himself and for others is apt to live on the whole a life that will appear very narrow and unsatisfactory Happily there are but few of nature so-ignoble so as asto asto asto to lack the desire of achieving some good end if it be only a seH selfish sh good But what we most wish to impress upon the minds of our student readers is the necessity of working to high ideals Of course one must make his way in the world must make a living and to many manyin in these precarious times the problem seems difficult enough to absorb all ones one's best thought and energies they do not feel that there is time for higher thought The 11 spirit is the spirit of ofa a i the age The ambition of the average American or of the average Englishman English English- man is to gain wealth enough to make his influence felt in the commercial world in short wealth is sought for its n F. F fi own sake as if it were an end in life instead of a means to an end Jik i We fear the commercial s spirit piri t is prevalent prevalent pre pre- J valent to a great degree among students We fear that many see no good in II getting an education further than that it promises to give them a better chance to earn money than they would have without it While not wishing to discourage discourage discourage dis dis- courage the efforts of students who are working with this end in view we want to keep it before their minds that there is something as much higher than this as the s stars ars are above the earth and we feel safe in saying that he who works to f. f this end alone will miss all the higher benefits of education He whose mind is great enough to reach beyond immediate immediate immediate imme imme- diate personal benefits we may be sure c will find his horizon of life so enlarged that there will be ample compensation for personal benefits missed And in inmost inmost most instances the fact that one has set i his ideal very high will not unfit him for what we are pleased to call more w practical work for he lie will regard all these so-called so practical ends in their true light as means to that higher end r rhe he has in view Dont Don't he be afraid of aiming too high You will accomplish more good and find j more satisfaction for yourselves in falling falling falling fall fall- ing short of a high aim than in achieving achieving achieving ing a low one Walk with your head above the clouds keeping your mind w fixed upon your ideal good Pinnacled dim dun in the intense in in into And if you fail fail nobly You will find that failure is often better than what the world calls success |