Show activities and scholarship by THOMAS ARKLE CLARK late dean of mon mn university of illinois Illi there la Is a curious misconception among high school and college students that it if you are going to do anything worth while in extracurricular Is r I 1 c u I 1 a r activities C 1 you are bound to 1 1 1 be a commonplace 44 or indifferent student and that it if you go out after scholastic honors it follows that you will get no nearer the athletic or activities tivi tIvIt ties les field than the side lines 1 I dont want to liae haie my nose in a book all the time the aspirant for honors on the track team announces 1 I want to do some thing thin else so he loafs on the books flunks economics 27 goes on probation slid and Is ineligible for a year what he really means Is that lie he has a constitutional tut ional lonal antipathy to hard work our local high school held a public initiation a few weeks ago of the boys and girls who had been elected to the honorary scholastic society I 1 at all surprised to see in the group boys who had won their letters in football who aho were wearing medals for musical and journalistic excellence and girls who were quite outstanding in other things than scholarship it if youre going to be a phi ill beta some loafer tells me youve got to give all your time to it it true one of the best guards we ever had on our team made tau 13 beta eta phi honorary engineering fraternity tern ity earned his living and was in los loe at the same time of course he bad energy and concentration and desire to do well in each of the activities in which he was engaged lie ile won his letter got enough to eat made the senior honor society and married the girl to whom he was engaged what more could one ask I 1 know an end who nho made phi ph beta kappa in his junior year and any number of editors and managers and debaters who have done the same thing 0 1333 1933 western newspaper union |