Show FORGOTTEN PAINS dy THOMAS ARKLE CLARK emeritus Ema dean of men university Uni venity of illinois Illi noi uhe she experiences wo we anre having today are moro more vivid and bcd real in our minds than any wo we have previously had pictures fade as time pushes them back into tho the distance N did you ever seo see anything like it jones asks aska me llo ile Is a talking about abou t tho the weather which has been pretty snappy for the last two or three days and has involved tho the shoveling of a U good deal deai of coal unless you are fortunate enough to have beave gas or oil or city heat in tho the house now jones forgets that two years ago the thermometer went two iwo degrees lower for two days longer than it did tills this last time that coal has haa been shoveled that shivering done the unpleasantness resulting from that spell ot of weather Is in the past and jones has entirely forgotten that lie aard anything about it two years ngo ago john has hag just had his last examination and Is ready to go home for a few days you know ho he says to mp me ive board more howling this semester about the awful examinations they are piling upon the fellows than I 1 ever did before and I 1 know ive never been through such a siege flunking I 1 inquire Inq sympathetically no lie he says 1 I guess ive done better I 1 have ever eer done before but they certainly are raising the standards I 1 laughed I 1 had heard the howling forty years before and the announcement of the rapidly rising standards had been broadcast nt at the end of 0 every examination period in those faraway days as they are now we forget from one year to another what trials each season brings the memory ol of the pain of live five years ago la Is forgotten in the effort to endure stoically what we are now suffering buffering 0 lilt 1132 now newspaper p p r union |