Show u Thinking WE as a race boast of our thinking honor honor- honorable and intellectual capacity It is an honorable honorable honor honor- able ancestral But do we think as our predecessors thought Are our thoughts influenced by like circumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances and surroundings Are they as as and like business-like or are we pure approaching approaching approaching ap ap- nearer to that point where moral and intellectual forces will make that happy blending readily seen in the following To do our duty is the moral part to know our duty is the intellectual part At pr present sent this is ideal but no less true Hence it follows that we do not always know our duty Do we always think independently Can we always ays ays think independently The answer is probably negative but why We are creatures of circumstances surroundings surroundings surroundings surround surround- ings and influences and each individual l exercises an influence upon the other Some carry a weak and feeble in influence influence influence in- in fluence others carry an influence so strong that one really feels it thus it forces recognition From this it would seem that one is not only responsible for what he says but als also for what he thinks When a person makes a statement we at once proceed to examine criticise and filter the same and if we find a worthy statement statement statement state state- ment we at once add it to our storehouse storehouse storehouse store store- house of reason But how do we proceed proceed proceed pro pro- to analyse these silent sentiments and influences How do we know which are our own and which are the property of someone else How shall we get the gold from the dross We may say each one is his own doctor in this case j We are at present taught that we are too often simply the echo of the opinions of someone else If we are but an echo it is sad but if while t echoing others' others sentiments we take up r the vibration ourselves we become a S Sh wort worthy h y echo J JAs As we look back over the ocean of intellectual in in- q i x development as we peruse the j pages of history and note the crests i 1 1 and troughs of this development as it rolls forward the question the seems to present ya A itself Where are we at the present time Are we on a crest ready to plunge through another stage of digression to issue forth with the same onward driving driving driving ing Are we rising toward a crest or orare 4 are we Wf on the plain of easy ascent We Weare Weare are now struggling in one of the greatest great great- est if not the greatest financial or of i monetary age the world has ever seen It seems useless to call attention to this fact but as all subjects are connected there may be more here than seems at first sight Ed Educational subjects being connected business pursuits and industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial enterprises must likewise be con con- j s How much then does a business business busi busi- j ness depression affect education Does it aid or hinder the spirit of progressive i development in the educational department department department depart depart- J ment And finally to what extent are business pursuits affected by education Perhaps some of us have answered these questions for ourselves be that as asit it may this writer does not intend to p assume the responsibility He will be f perfectly content if the collection causes 3 a worker fellow-worker to think if but one thought more originally or dently If it will arouse a little dormant energy and banish hence those abject lowly dreams we shall feel proud of of f the endeavors and thankful for the result Zeta Gamma fi |