Show STUDENT LIFE STUDENT LIFE Published Monthly by the Students of the Agricultural College of Utah STAFF JAMES T JARDINE E Editor-in-Chi- ef PETERSON Associate Editor J EDWARD TAYLOR Business Manager DEPARTMENT EDITORS MISS MAY MAUGIIAN Literary T C CALLISTER Student Affairs J T CAINE III Departments A P MERRILL Locals R II FISHER Alumni and Exchange G SUBSCRIPTION One Year Single Copies 75c 10c Application has been made to enter this periodical at the Logan Utah postoftlcc as second-clas- s mail matter Editorial Considerations Now that examinations are over a little moralizing might not be out of order Before examinations nothing in the line of preaching would go Then no one had time for anything except what tinctured of the mill Grinding was the order of the day But now you can profitably stop and ask yourself: “What have I got from last term’s work?” Too often the answer will be two A’s and three lJ’s or three A’s and two B’s or all A’s Have you ever considered the proposition: Can I afford to get A’s? However heterodox this may seem at iirst glance it has something in it Although the grade is more or less indicative of the thoroughness of the student it is the least that any one should get from four months of college work It is a question worth considering whether or not a student should be forced to pore over page after page of technical matter until he is able to repeat it parrot-lik- e 67 when what he actually remembers of a subject is the generalizations the common trend of the subject The student often plugs his head full of matter which he hopes to remember until examinations are over and then forget We are forced to say that this is not always his fault Another phase of the subject is that while he is putting on his tin armor for the contest he neglects other branches of his development He forgets that he may not always have an extensive library at his disposal and the library which should be made the greatest educator in the school is neglected in the desire for grades The student gets his subject a little better perhaps but he fails to get by extensive reading that broadening of the intellect which makes a man master of all situations He may graduate with high honors but still have missed the greatest part of his college course Another consideration is that he often misses a desirable part of his college work and a part which will remain with him longest and be perhaps the strongest medium of attachment to his alma mater I mean the public life the social life the companion life or whatever you wish to call it Of the public life not much can be said We are yet struggling towards the establishment of stronger social bonds in the college So much greater then should be the exertions of the broad student to help attain this end Although it will take a long time to shed over our societies and fraternities the glamour almost worshipful of older institutions yet the student should remember that he owes it to his institution as well as to himself to support their movements The record of some students shows them a member of no society You can trace their hand in no public movement Perhaps they know that a college paper exists perhaps they do not Such students although they may generate a string of good records from here to the moon are a disgrace to their college There is another form of social life which we often miss Roughly speaking we may call it the club life the union of congenial spirits It is the place where friendships are formed to |