Show the philosophical fad possibly it is the lingering influence of the puritan maxim that whatever is ia pleasurable pleasurably e is wrong 1 and that rest is indolence that impels the american to malre hia vacation a change of occupation and to seek to improve every moment of his time certainly in no other way can we account for the d determination mi nation with which the manor man or wom woman an who ought to bathe his or her tired mini min I 1 in rest irritates it with lee lectures ture 9 and alun plunges es into summer schools as it if they were summet summer pools the tired school teacher who ought to bend all his energies to doing nothing will sit for hours ou on a bench in a grove to listen to a college professor who ought to be idle too lecture on platos self effacement or socratese Socrat ess synthesis 1 we have not the slightest desire to disparage the excellence of such summer schools we only point to their oness success ce ss as indicating a development of the 1 national oual temperament and the national desire for improvement P 0 on u them is only a compromise between this temperament and the human craving for rest and that the man who sits apparently wrape iu in ad mi ration of professor analysis of platos self effacement is sending his thoughts far distant and is really resting them in a way very uncomplimentary ruen tary to that learned lecturer let us na hope lie be is boston transcript |