Show STUDENT LIFE PA6EEI0HT N9 10 Kneeling there on the one lone rock on all that sandy stretch of shore they offered up their thanks to the One who had preserved them from the perils of the deep Turning then with swimming eyes but sturdy hearts they bent themselves to the task of redeeming a wilderness and giving to the world a new race and a new nation That f st New England winter was a rigorous one Many of the Pilgrims had been u cd to lives of ease and comparative luxury and when the first fierce blasts of winter swept inland from the Atlantic death stalked untrammeled through the land In confidence they set about the building of their homes but when the first tokens of spring appeared there were more graves than cabins Still the little band remained undaunted With a sob in their hearts and a prayer on their lips : LET US GIVE THANKS Thursday On of next week will be Thanks- - x i rrt""Sr"' ” Editorial Page of Student Life VOLUMF 10 hat day the people of giving Day fthe United States will observe special devotional exercises services of praise and thanksgiving to tlve beneficent Creator for the many blessings He has vouchsafed us And such service is most proper It is cause for thanksgiving that we as students reside in a land of liberty Iii a land whose organic law was written in righteousness and “dedicated to the proposition that all men arc created equal” before the law Ours is a Christian land And because that its people have at all times endeavored to manifest the spirit and geniius of true Christianity Hod the Father has looked upon them with favor until today they stand as the champions of libeYty before all the world So long as a spirit of righteousness and faith shall characterize the lives of its people just so long will America continue to grow and prosper It is well for us as young Americans that we learn early to appreciate the sacred nature of our heritage Nearly three hundred years have passed since the first little company of Puritans landed on Plymouth Itock 1 ) they kept ai the task assigned them All throughout the summer they labored and with the approach of their first annual— their natal day in the new land their faithful hearts turned in gratitude to the Power that had watched over and preserved them The governor of the colony proclaimed a feast of thanksgivFour men were detailed to go in ing search of game for the thanksgiving feast Think of it! Four men going into the woods to procure enough gamt tv feed the American nation Massasoit whose savage nature bed been suMuod by the patience and forbearance of ibe Pilgrims and ‘hall ve mt ay by the same power that was overshadowing their destiny came with his offering and together the warriors and the whites partook of the holy sacrament of peace From Plymouth 1(520 to Logan 1011 is a far cry Hut the work of the pilgrim fathers has prospered Today America stands as the arbiter of nations Where the starry emblem leads liberty and hap piness follow in its wake Virtue sits enthroned in the lives of its women and valor and faith is the armor of its men God has abundantly blessed Ilis peo Here in the great West we come again in contact with the primitive Ours the task to subdue the elements Ours the labor of winning the wilderness ple We are of royal lineage the unconquered and the unconquerable courses in our veins Our fathers and mothers have budded well They have laid a foundation broad deep and secure Ours the duty to rear the super- In faith and confidence let structure us approach our task fnil well assured that ‘‘we know in whom we have be- - lieved” To “the Power that has made and preserved us a nation” let us give thanks for “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful and whatso- ever he docth shall prosper” 0 WHOEVER There are times when the IT WAB thought of being a student at the A C II causes our hearts to swell with pride And then again there are other times when we feel as if we are anything but proud of such connection The occasion of the recent concert was one of the latter type To see an artivt of the quality of Mr Bergen forced to stand and wait idlv for the noise to subside sufficiently to allow him to proceed wtth his part is anything but pleasant to one who had come out prepared to spend an enjoyable evening But when such a breach of etiquette such a lack of ordinary courtesy is manifested in sudi a glaring manner by ones own schoolmate' when we reflect that the audience was made up almost entirely of college men and women and that tlm few townspeople present may be led to estimate the standard of our training by such an exhibition of rowdyism it is indeed Dick-Berge- n to blush to deport himself as to reflect credit upon the institution which is now eagerly judged by his individual conduct is one earnest wish WEAR JSrC A ROSTONT U SHOES O aro-yiat- a ! 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