Show F AN AND F ANGIES r ONE ii-ONE of our most popular instructors instructors' is familiarly known to his intimate ItT It acquaintances as Professor Shucks T The e other day he came in at the south door and I saw a young lady who vho had been waiting fox for him follow him up until at last he disappeared in a class room The young lady car carne came back looking very much chagrined having been unable to overtake him But said I why didn't you call to him I wanted to but for the life of me meI me meI I could not think of of his name she said The only na names es I could call to mind were say and Professor Shucks and as the hall was full of students I couldn't use either of them Since then the young lady has repeated his name over several hundred times forwards forwards forwards for for- wards and backwards so as to tobe tobe tobe be sure to get at least one end of it next time o occasion casion demands y l One of the speakers at the last general meeting gave expression to a beautiful thought thought that that today is not just like the day preceding it but hut is rather the sum sum of all the yesterdays that ever have been Today is ours today only We have no yesterday we may have nO no na tomorrow I I l have a friend wh who is subject to frequent attacks of the II blues and while in this mood he is is' very apt to express himself somewhat forcibly The other day a rather worse dose than usual called forth the following bit of of f pessimism which I produce as some of his ideas have a local application What a strange race of people in inhabit inhabit inhabit in- in habit this little world of ours after all 1 In their written ritten language and expressed thoughts they exhort each other to to be good and true We Weare are taught to be what we seem that is a thing to to tobe be shunned that truth should be ever uppermost and foremost As Shakespeare put it more than two centuries ago To thine own self be true and it needs must follow as the night the day thou not then be false to any man And yet they do not mean it The sentiments are beautiful theoretically beautiful that is all they have no real practical value If you think they do test them for awhile Be yourself wholly Obey the dictates of your own conscience and use that as a guide to your actions Do what you yourself know is right what others cannot but admit is right Cease being what you are not cast off the cloak which hides the true self from the eyes of your fellows work to the best of your ability for r the welfare of others forget self in inthe inthe inthe the efforts to advance humanity and andee see ee how much you will be appreciated Then when all the world is down on you when all your acquaintances speak of you as a crank change your tactics Tell every everyone one you meet how good they are are- and how much you think of them Cease to have any individuality and just drift along with the tide Know no such thing as duty erase the words candor and honesty of purpose from your your vocabulary and all will be well wel again You will have scores upon scores of friends pseudo friends fairweather fairweather fairweather fair- fair weather friends if you please who willbe will willbe willbe be true to you just so long as you cater to their pleasure The man who said Deliver me from my friends must have had such as these in mind Friends who at the least slander or orthe orthe orthe the most transparent lie fall over each other in the headlong has haste e to denounce denounce denounce de de- you and voice the I told you so so frequently heard They never seem to think of investigating the truth or falsity of the report report report-of of course not So and so told me and it must be as he says The slightest suggestions to the person in in question would oft times be he sufficient to enable him to vindicate l himself but while they do not hesitate to tell everyone else no one seems to think that the interested person should know anything about it To be sure if the crank stops a minute to think about it he may reap consolation from the fact that ninety per cent of the great men of the past I use the adjective adjective adjective ad ad- advisedly were cranks to the people of their day and many of them could not renounce their ideas of right even though they lost their lives in consequence But this is cold comfort for the crank as he has to suffer humiliation if he lie preserve his individuality individuality individuality duality or endure the pangs of conscience conscience conscience con con- science if he become a drifter during during during dur dur- ing all the days he exists on this mundane sphere It It may be that there is another existence where things will be reversed I do not know but if so what an awakening there will be for too credulous credulous lous ious humanity when the hour comes I. I C. C Haslett |