Show S COL COLLEGE L SPIRIT AND ND THE AE M MA I MATER WA TER McGill Daily There surely surety must come a time Urns In II- the life of every Individual student stu stu- dent wh when m he hi begins to q question eston himself as i to td th the nature of of f that soni somewhat what vague ague and and abstract abstract Quality quality I ity with which he is la supposed to have hav been been h imbued from Irom the moment moment mo mu ment of arrival at at college in lD in a suf out fl cieni dose se to last him all his days nam namely iy college spirit Dec Because us of that term be he must sacrifice sacrifice sac sac- if ce everything and anything He lIe must must attend attend every everY college event patronize this th that t and the other thing thins Just b because cause it is connected with college He must buy college pen pennants ants College Humour Annual Annual An An- nual R Reviews and so so on on and f so so forth In fact he must do a whole lot of things at at college j Just st because college spirit says he he must It If one is eo to bold as as to fall fair in turning out out to to td a rooters' rooters practice or in hi shouting his he head d off olf with I a dozen and a half more more or less less' of college yells yells he lie is labeled labeled as one ne lacking in the essentials of cOli college ge spirit It If one one should sit throughout throughout through through- out out ut a whole t game game without bursting out ut I in loud enthusiasm lor for any any p points his side may have I made he Is Is' Is looked ook d down upon The love I I which which on one one holds d for fOr fOrthe the Alma Mat Jat- I er is in in proportion to the amount I of noise he he can can make make In too man many manyi I i ways ways this Is only too too true of almost every every branch of college activity all vve ver the he continent continent Judging from the I college s and magazines s that thai I come come to to hand While during g the the course of a college col lege career career we we m must must st of of ne necessity acquire a certain amount of facts the main purpose purpose that hat we we come to college college- is to develop our power ol of Yet in this one ne thing of college cOlleg spirit we fall down sadly We l lisp leap ap wholeheartedly Into every field field of i college activity and contribute contribute of ot time an and money In the name of college ollege spirit and do not know what it is We never stop stop p to analyze e. e seem it were in n the nature of college spirit to demand demand that we should consider everything from the college ege itself to the very smallest thing as the best est anywhere no matter how much nearer nearer the opposite may may behe bethe be he hehe the he case ease When it comes to college spirit it would seem as though we must t use usa our reas reasoning ability as to the relative values of It t must be directed in every other field of affinity or th though ugh Oar college our C teams team aDlI our dances la Is fact act everything HI t college must a ap- ap appear pear to be the thEY e best We must it would seem stand staAd op up to a man against anyone would dare to question tion the supremacy f cy of this bat or the he other Cuing at college On Onto OM C cannot help but wonder how maa many college say cay or muse t to fe 1 themselves ff 0 College Spirit what things are to in thy name name ame A And d when whelP w We ting stag f to BeAlma theAlma tie the Alma Mater Mate ta do 1 we w. do so b Ve th there e I is something 11 g about it Giat t makes us ata stand td Up In fa awe for SOY ev v I rence Are there theW S 1 praises due 6 06 the fact that y we ff appreciate tf tW h huge struggle and great self denia that has as been necessitated on the part part arf of many in the of the I institution and which bad Ii the ne consequent consequent con con- sequent sequent result that that the has has las Dee been able to contribute something sums some thing ling g to the Pie the welfare of or orthe orthe the community at large am Anil tl that among mong its its- graduates there Haws Haws- been many w who o have becomes become successful suo suc- lea leaders in the lines Jines they I h have ave y chosen whether w ether It t be in in this the arts br sciences Or on the otter otHer land hand is our oar Feg regard rd for the Alma i Mater ater based solely upon the fact that hat it is le thE the one 01 one w which we happen to be attending attending- lg and which regard we e could have have- rot for fore any other institution tion of learning that we might accidentally haV have landed in re re- OL C ardless of the fact whether any I of Its faculty or alumni have acquired Required acquired ac Re- even of mediocre fame It If Itt It t is la due to the former reasons weare we weare weare are Justified in o our r est esteem em and nothing more need be said If It ItIs ItIs it itis is due to the latter reasons our sense sense of values is Is very low and need readjustment as it is Is not based bas has bas ed upon In Intelligence It may be based upon ho honor or but certain not upon morality Neither is esteem of the lesser type quite non non moral As to which it is immoral we will leave it for others to thing individually math indi upon upon it We certainly c consider that It It Iti i is In Inthe the matter of college college- spirit In n the reverence for Alma Juma Mater we use our reason and sense of or values s distinguishing between proper sentiment and sentimental bunkum between false and true and finally between the sublime and the ridiculous As the present time there is little or no differentiation differentia differentia- tl tion n Md and If it if th there re were were it could not but be a source of benefit i to all concerned |