Show SPRING FEVER Farmers and laborers generally expect an attack of spring fever at the approach approach ap- ap of warm weather Spring fever is an indescribable feeling of lassitude of utter insufficiency of every effort a realization of the inadequacy of every thought and action There is too great a fullness of life its vastness appalls its manifest beauty oppresses the heart with witha a mysterious feeling of pain Even the most hopeful feels a sort of hopeless hopeless hopeless hope hope- less realization of his littleness and the vanity of human aspirations in the presence presence presence pres pres- ence of this full beauty this strange incomprehensible incomprehensible in in- com comprehensible mystery Man is a unit in the great whole of nature Other units surround him hem him in on every hand all forms of life str struggling straggling for Mans Man's boasted boast boast- ed supremacy is scarcely more than the ability to fit himself to these surrounding conditions and the nearer he does this the greater is his power the higher his devel devel- Spring fever is a remnant of the feeling men must have experienced when mans man's place in nature was not nearly on so high hig a plane as it is now when every power he possessed had to be exercised in ina a direct conflict with other forms of life The struggle for supremacy has been long long- and terrible Gradually all other forms fall out of the race and take a subordinate subordinate sub sub- ordinate place or merely to the needs of man Gradually man masters and moves to higher perfection to the realization of his highest ideals i Since THE CHRONICLE began its career t it has met with numerous difficulties which are never felt by college journals of longer standing and andin in larger The principle one of these is the lack of literary ability and originality among its editors and contributors To the thoughtful mind this is not strange r and indeed we may say that it was fore- fore r i 1 seen Ours Our's is a new country The time of our parents and most of our own has been occupied with the stern realities of pioneer life often with sordid cares leav- leav r ing g little time for the cultivation of literary literary literary liter- liter ary tastes But time will bring changes The litA litI literature lit- lit A I e of any any- country is a growth if dependent upon other growths which rf must precede it in time The men who build States have little time to devote to writing books Everything in a new country must be subservient to utility I Y Yet et on the whole we congratulate our r j i contributors and at the same time take the liberty to suggest to those who may IT contribute in the future that they give ive J f more regard to original thought and less I It t to what hat they have read of the thoughts of H J others Try to work up all this material 1 t- t st i f il- il which comes to the work shop of your mind then it will come forth clothed in inV my V the pleasing garb of originality will shine i out ut to the world in the light which your f soul casts upon it instead of being mere ft repetitions of the emulations from other I If minds |