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Show "TRAIN FOR ILL AND NOT FOR GOOD"? NEVER The writer listened last night to the broadcast over KVNIT entitled, "Quarter Hour from "College Hill' during which time Professor Marion Nielsen gave the talk. He referred to his broadcast of a year ago when he spoke, as he said, in a humorous way of the making of New Year Resolutions. He did not care to talk in a humorous vein this year because people were not in the mode to be humorous, due to the terrible ter-rible world condition, but he did refer to the making of resolutions as an absolute waste of effort and thought because, in the 'majority of cases,' the men and women who make the New Year resolutions would go about breaking them immediately following their making. He decried the spirit of idealism because be-cause the efforts made in the past by the idealists have in so many instances come to naught; and he commented in opposition to that thought upon a line from the poem of A. E. Houseman, an English writer which reads "train for ill and not for good." , We were disappointed in the broadcast because it is in absolute oposition to the spirit of progress and against the spirit of faith and hope that has permeated the minds of President E. G. Peterson and the other presidents of the College who have directed the growth of the college on the Hill up to the present time. If they had not carried within themselves an ideal for a bigger and better college it would have been a small institution now as it was in the beginning small in physical makeup and small in the influence it endeavors endeav-ors to instill into the hearts of the students. It is true many of the high goals set by the national leaders leaders who have been classed as idealists have not been realized but surely some good has come out of the effort to reach the goal. To "train for ill and not for good", would be a calamity cal-amity to the world it would throw aside the faith, the prayers, the yearnings, the hopes and the good will towards each other that men and women have sought after since the world began; it would put to nought the spirit of Christmas which fills the lives of. all Christians at Christmas time; it would destroy the story of the angels who sang at the birth of the Saviour "peace on Earth, Goodwill Towards Men" and it would prevert the efforts of all mankind from their earnest seeking of better living conditions for themselves them-selves as well as for their loved ones and humanity as a whole. From listening to the poem referred to above for the first time we would assume the author was under the influence of liquor as he wrote it, for he told of a better "drink than another." We were not impressed with it and we do not understand why one should, after it was written, read it because there was nothing elevating in it. However, How-ever, that is to one's own taste but surely we can not throw away our ideals during the coming year and tram for ill and not for good". andWfe,nthHnk ?Th b6tter t0 resolve t0 do better fm hyinr gd CmeS |