Show J JIT TT IT is becoming quite the fashionable f f thing of late for the young college 11 graduate to assume a kind of high and mighty attitude with regard to business politics religion and the ordinary affairs of life in general as if they were something which he had in some inexplicable inexplicable inex inexplicable inex- inex r J way separated himself from entirely This not so much because he feels himself above his men fellow-men as O y I because he has acquired an exaggerated J idea of the corrupt condition of society society J Jand and fears contamination He is not j. j orthodox in religion the therefore he feels he would be playing the hypocrite were i he to join in the worship of orthodox i 1 people he cannot approve of the methods of political parties therefore t the he will join none of them J We Wet t are far from cd thi this x feeling of independence for it seems to us when normal to be the truest j evidence of manhood but there is is danger of its becoming purely negative We would have independence but not apathy criticism but not cynicism Reformation cannot be forced upon mankind society will not be sneered out of its humor hamor True reformers are those whose sympathies are broad enough to include the average man so that he may understand his every every- everyday day life his a aspirations his hopes his v fears his shortcomings and may lead him by insensible ble degrees to something OJO 00 O v. v i PO g I t higher an and and bOe better better r. r n Carlyle wanted to i. i reform the world by knocking it on the ther r head Ruskin by petulantly scolding A it it is needless to say that the world t laughed at both th We would say to the young college T. T graduate if you are dissatisfied with i things as you find them yet know of nothing you can do to improve matters t f there could be no greater evidence that your education has been sadly neg- neg t If the world is out of J. J joint oin t it k X needs your help Take this to heart r v and begin your work as a man among men not as a creature that has in some someway i way the common herd do dof f this and you will soon find that men are not so bad a lot after all and that there are thousands who are just as Y eager as yourself to find the way leading leadY lead- lead I J 4 ing t to a higher highel life V |