Show A A COMMON hurry among students for the diploma and the reverence given to its its' holder with little question as to its significance perhaps expresses a widely prevailing conception of the terms education and graduation In the minds of many they seem identical identical identical cal and to be educated means to to o be be graduated The shortest road that leads to the goal that be bears rs the seal of an inn institution institution in in- n of learning is too often the h one tak taken n as the preparation for th the a activities activities vi I ties and responsibilities of I life 1 I Though Though- the purpose is more commendable commendable com com- than that which coined the maxim when youre you're big enough youre you're old enough and ought to be he wise enough it is not the highest conception conception concep concep- tion of the practical ideal There was an age when mens men's whole duty was to be submissive and strong in physical activities The highest cosmology cosmology cosmology cos cos- said the earth was a flat and four cornered surface covered with a meagre dome on whose little canopy were spangled capricious stars that ruled ruled the destinies of men when alchemy was the only chemistry and astrology the only astronomy and monarchy the only government And men live on these same planes of thought today and are ready to enter upon their life career at atan atan atan an early date and with little preparation But since the earth has been made round by Copernicus and the fortunes of men have been handed from the stars 10 io individual thought and conduct and a hundred sciences have appeared with truths that have a bearing on the vital questions of life and since government has its safety to the judgment of its citizens with p problems that require a varied knowledge of men men and things to be educated means more than to be graduated the practical ideal has a deeper significance and a preparation for life demands a corr corresponding time for its attainment When it is contended contended contended con con- tended that time is lost as preparation in the study of questions that bear on individual and social progress it is perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps forgotten that in active as in c col college l. l lege life we lh Hie e in deeds and not in years and that the one who is well prepared to take his part may do more with a few and well directed strokes than many who are poorly equipped can do doin doin doin in a long and labored life Since the new new civilization is more mars varied than the old it requires a more re highly organized and active mind to meet meet its requirements And vAnd at ats s of of It nature has found a correlation between the period of f youth and the complexity of the organism in structure and tendencies tendencies tendencies cies of development And then there is a peculiar freedom and dreaminess of youth and student life that comes but once and that causes people who have passed it to look back at that period as the pleasant sant part of the drama and to to speak of its hours as golden Did you ever ier converse with a well educated person who ever regretted the thelong thelong thelong long period spent in preparation at college college college col col- lege or in private study We have never But eminent statesmen and educators educators educators edu edu- who have had famishing tramps to their present attainments tell us they would rather have met a sterner struggle than to have lived on a lower plane of intellect than they have reached And so we say active duties will make you s sober ber soon enough Dont Don't hasten by these verdant meadows Cramming Cramming Cramming Cram Cram- ming is not developing We may be graduates tes and fossils at the same time Keep in touch with the age through its literature and philosophy Pause to see seethe seethe seethe the relation of your text book to real life and think of diplomas as having a special rather than a general I cance |