Show burdetta Bur dotto dotta at oberlin Ob orlin I 1 it id not a large abney bolay bustling crowded commercial city it Is the collage that is 13 nl all there the re Is to oberlin and audit it is 13 enough i we never think of the town of a town of any town when any uy one ona says saya oberlin we think ot of the tha grand 0 old 1 college whose name haa bag gone out oat to the ends enda ot of the ho earth and whose excellence keeps paco pace with her fame A school that WAR waa founded on of broad humanity a school with a s great christian heart throbbing in n all its teachings and a practical christian lio life showing in all its ito works it la Is prosper ono iab as M it well deserves to bo be and the world knows its ita 11 works and charity ind bud service bed and faith and patience it is a grand ohl school As aa the caravan drew draw slowly away from the he gates of 0 oberlin some coma one on t he train irain kindly told the jester that t the he 11 junior class had criticized criticised hla his lecture with severe censures they sahl bald they were Lilt etl disappointed in it tint that it contained no mental food tot for them tho the jester was packing away his cap and bens bells and bauble and ho looked at them W with ith on an expression of such snob profound thought that would have cleaned lease even an oberlin junior 0 juni 11 he ha FIE bald b bye y a tia nd byo bye looking pensively across the smiling moad owa WB that stretched toward elyria well any mau man or boy bay who would aland before before the lecture ballotin bullovin bul lolin iu in oberlin und and road tho the advertisement of my lecture thereon as it appeared yesterday lo to wit bob bardette Dur dette the young man of the will deliver kim bis fanny lecture on the I 1 ries bias anil and rail fall ot of the mustache I 1 any nan man who would read that and ana then go to the hill rail expecting to leaten to a profound orga ment on the 11 infinity of 0 the absolute or some scholarly paper on the homologation homolo molo gatlon gation ol of the ideal why such snob a man needs mental food he most needs lots lota of it at a time and he be needs need it about thirteen times a day there was a con couple pie of old fal fellows lowis down in warsaw N Y who were criticising criticizing critic ising my lecture the morning after delivery there and one of them sald bald it 6 was far interior inferior in its scope of research and breadth of 0 thought to joseph cooks ultimate america now what do you yon suppose is such a mans idea ol of a lecture t that at is advertised to be funny 2 11 and now the oberlin juniors complain that it contains no 11 mental food that lit la a serious drawback in s a funny lecture it is a very serious lenoah omission I 1 must attend the concord school of phil philosophy philoa 0 1 ophy this summer and have Is n little suy say a about bou I 1 a quart of me mental antal food jumus pumped into mo inc it takes a groat ile deal of mental food to go around even ono junior jailor but bat in this day ol of mental ac activity when the sleepless sIe eDless presses are ara th rowling into the lap zif ot the world more books than any one man ona call read the names of when new schoola of philosophy tire are springing up liko like the grass blades ot of april when pulpit and bar and bench beach all and d rostrum toa tram laboratory aud and study and c observatory are burd burdening lening the very air of oar intellectual wail coill I 1 with thought bud bod discovery aad research experiment on aad investigation when tho the sh sealve alve of eublio publio and private libraries grocut under ardena of un uncut oat be books oke and the 11 junior nine 11 was practicing a scrub bomb game of baseball base ball all t abo it a we wore were in oberlin Ob orlin it really does not seem absolutely necessary that the juniors should so BO suiter buffer irom from the tl 0 gnawing augi of 0 intellectual starvation its to bo be driven to any fanny lecture tor for I 1 I 1 mental food 11 jod god bless the tha lods la la anyhow tho the jester added warmly god dod blesa blo tho boys im glad their aspirations are for something higher and bettor better that than I 1 can give them themire juniors now next year they will be seniors when they will not know quite so much bat hey 11 understand more then when they get out of college and drive a dray a couple of months or grub grab sassafras bumps or break prairie or sweep ont ant a law office a couple compla of months they will learn that in these days of galloy gallop and gulp when it comes to supporting a family a good steady job at eighteen dollars a week la is worth all the tha mental food you can oram cram into a nursing bottle god bless blesa tho the boys boja he be ud dit and looked a long time out of thinking of the tha days when ho he gratin grada abed at tho the old poona peoria high school and real read an essay on the press bad aad the bal lot lox box with a big P mud aud big bin which he solved several everal important tant and problems in fa national polities politico general state craft and sociology and then went to work in dear old jacob tap pings china store breaking glass lamps and one for ten dollars ollars il a month hawkey e |