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Show Norember 27, 1933 Peg 10 LITERARY WHAT WEBER STUDENTS HAVE TO BE THANKFUL FOR With Thanksgiving coming nearer, all of us find ourselves asking the question, "For what am I thankful?" It is not difficult for anyone who attends Weber College to enumerate his many advantages. All of us will agree that the opportunity of going to school is something to be thankful for. Living in an age when it is necessary to specialize and excel in some line, we must be able to do our work well enough to gain some important position. We all have the desire to put forth some effort to get the foundation for making of ourselves a success. We can build that foundation at Weber. But no student can make any progress without ambition. Weber students demonstrate this quality through the ambition which makes us dissatisfied with the commonplace many projects they undertake. We are thankful for that tilings of life, that ambition which arouses the desire to desert the much followed pathways and explore new ones leading to success. We should be thankful, too, for those innate powers of learning, reasoning, and understanding without which we could make little progress. To me the outstanding thing for which Weber students should be thankful is the faculty teachers who are known far for their accomplishments. But it isn't this quality that the students have noticed most. Through an understanding of human nature and a keen insight into each individual our faculty has been able to help the students make decided progress. Is there a student who docs not value the friendships and associations made during the year? Nothing is as wonderful as friendship. Our powers increase with affection; we become more intellectual, gain a better understanding of people as a whole. We cultivate the ability !u overlook failings in other people and grow eager to ri-cgiiizc their fine points. We lose ournarrow-mindedly and respect the genius of others. With friendship cwnei cheerfulness, a helping attitude, a bright outlook .in life. We can meet our friends and say, "I really have you to be thankful for." KATHLEEN WILSON. TWO WINDOWS There is a charm in this morning that stirs my pulse : unknown longings, somehow defined with the stillness f blue that reaches its tranquil fingers into my heart. . . . At the south window there Is darkness. . . . The clouds wear fringes of ivory and beads of silver. The trees look like autumn. Hut from the north windows there is a rustle in the wind, a moving pattern on the blue A bluencss without sunshine . . . and quiet. , . Like the even tenor of my life the windows offer peace n blue and silent sorrow in ivory, gray, and silver beads, with beauty breaking through to lead me on to brighter days of patch-work loveliness. . . . MARJORIE WOOD. DUES A'JID BOOZ "Credit goes where credit is deserved." But who deserve not credit beware! Pre-medics, you must be tactful or no one will like you. Before attempting to use the knife learn the art of keeping your mouths shut about your very good friends, the lawyers. You might cut your throats. Gather around, you Loons. You play your best basket ball seated comfortably on the lounge. One complaint, however: the draft is terrible. Your fate only proves the theory that a little action and ability are necessary in any athletic endeavor. Have you noticed, they go out once, twice, three times, sometimes four times with Jean and then go on a mission, Its phenomenal. Number three on deck! Ah, but credit goes where credit is desofVed! The lawyers were gentlemen, anyway. Agfa, step up and get your "due,s." I believe you have an ideal. But that Bramwell element did crepe in (or I should say, roll out). Goggle. o - BOOKS ON TRIAL Long Pennant Oliver La Barge The long pennant flying from, the "Glimpse," pirate brig of Chog's Cove during the War of 1812, proclaimed that the ship was homeward bound, but years were to pass before each member of the crew reached home some better, other worse; some alive, others dead. Samuel Waterman died in a heathen country, "his mind fastened on home." Jeremiah Disney, who wanted "to run himself for a change," came home from New Orleans a drunkard who intended to quit drinking always tomorrow. The Indian, Ezckiel Nyas, turned to whaling, because his share of the loot "seemed like a tether holding him in too small a radius." The marriage and political career of Captain Jonas Dodge were threatened because of his responsibility for the piracy. Roger Hall and Ephraim Brown tried life among the Indians of Pamilco and the French of New Orleans, but concluded that, "We're Chog's Cove men." John Disney lived in fear of Jemmy, who blackmailed him, and Roger, who was his wife's first choice. But the chain of error did not end even when all were home; it was only broken. Seldom have individual stories been so skilfully combined to make one strong novel, and rarely has an historical back-ground been so effectively subdued to to emphasize particular characters and incidents as in La Farge's Long Pennant. The characters are not ideal, but they are clear-cut and convincing even in their badness. The incidents, neither morally nor csthetically pleasing, are realistic and powerful. As a whole, however, the book is dramatic in Its simplicity and truthfulness, even in its vagueness of thought and expression. For any college boy to read it would be an exciting adventure. Long Pennant is available at the Carnegie library and at Wright's library. |