Show T the pressure of the exercises U UNDER and especially in larger classes the professors seem inclined to view us collectively collectively col col- rather than as individuals The rigor of the recitation too often makes us feel like subjects on the witness stand for cross examination and we are lead to think that stronger intellect implies implies implies im im- plies unpleasant With moderate ate ambition some refuse to sacrifice a warmer nature for the colder keenness and make their exit at an early season to find other ther occupations Others through imitation catch the formal attitude attitude attitude atti atti- tude of the teacher and drill it into every posture and meet the members of the social and domestic circles with the the lectured distance of an heir apparent to toa a college chair And so we see marks of caste in our nominal democracy But the imitation has been many times imperfect Both classes have known the thet t teacher acher at a distance and from a single point of view and so have left his circle with distorted notions of his character r t The informal receptions of the Faculty f are perhaps intended to prevent such f evils but they are few and far between We think the student should be the next to take the initiative and make it a point of duty at least once a while to meet the professor in personal intercourse on topics of a more general nature than the of his would require m Teachers are mortals mortal's and can sympathize with our human natures Professors have suggested that students should in general to be more aggressive They are espe especially especially anxious to become y with Normal students more intimately College students by their long stay stay and mem membership in smaller classes naturally learn to know their teachers better And then with the prospective teacher s swe we should all get out of the beaten path of our daily program and see what is going on in other quarters The life of our school is varied but while we are buried in our direct concerns we are apt to forget that a dozen other classes are i u ur r reci reciting ting that teachers of different types and methods are spreading other kinds of truths and that varied stimulation r r iS is essential to a healthy mental growth The student who never never visits chapel who knows no classes but his own who is a stranger to societies gymnasium and evening lectures who know no 1 books but his text-books text and no other church but his particular chapel gets too little for his time timp and is apt to become become become be be- come a storehouse of narrow facts and feelings u. u |