Show THERE IS ISO NO ROYAL nO ROAD Ptolemy an Egyptian ruler had engaged Euclid lo to teach leach him hun geometry but buL his royal pupil did not enjoy memorizing theor theorems ms ho he therefore went to his teacher and inqui inquired ed if there was no easier wa way Y to lo learn the propositions To this lIns b Iho tho an answered answered answered an- an Thera There is no royal roal road to geometry Tho The incident above incident illustrates the tho attitude of a I rapidly decreasing class of college students For years they have b been en the worry of the college deans and tho the despair of the professors But that class is I I almost gone The Tho other day Edison Marshall 1 noted story short-story writer was vas on the Iho campus He was I speaking of oC the old war pre-war days and de declared lar d StudIes Studies Stu I dies didn't worry us much then But I hardly think I that yo you have havo as much fun as we wo used to lo Eddie is right Students today are arc probably no more intel intel- I than the they were ten years ago but buL they arc I trying harder Hard knocks have brought home this the lesson that there is no royal road to lo knowledge Students are discovering that education must be taken without a sugar ugar coating coaling and college deans are having less and less trouble with wilh the class of students who try to lo get geL b by without doing doing- the work Continually theris there thera is a greater greaten conviction that there only is only one war to lo learn learn anti and th that t is b by hard study Lack of will power to concentrate on on an studies is often characterized as a want of tho the ability to Ie stud study Th The Tha day dar is past when the brilliant student can rely on his personality or his pull with the ille instructor la to laget get him a good grade Scholarships are won not b by procrastination and neglect but by determination and hard work The student who postpones his studies until the last minute is the tho on one who pets gets the flunks because with wilh the crowded program it is impossible la to catch up And the Iho person who thinks he ho has slipped ono one over oyer on the instructor when he hG I escapes s th the penalty penally for negligence is the one rho ho I will lose out in the end The lesson Ptolemy learned is being leing learned rv American college students There is no royal road The Daily Emerald Emeral to lo knowledge The Thc Oregon |