The Gavelyte, May-June 1914

CEDARVILLE COLLEGE you w·culd make extract of beef---,by pre 1 sure. "His-tc1 y and ph:Joso'PhY and literatu rf! and r eal mus,ic you canno t p1·odnc:e Ly mecJl ani cal proi.::esses. You muisit take them in sl owly and gradua lly and ge't them tho'IOughly and carefully. There is1n,o gr eat er mi ·take in the woil'd, no greate r mist'O'ltune .Umn f.o,r· a man to think himself a really 'culchawed' per son when he is a.s ignorant as Baalam 's A , and not one-half s 1 0 inspin:d. Co u nt erfe its Can 't Pass. "There is much of S'o-caJ!l ed cultu re toda-y pass1ng itse'lf off fo r the 1 eal article, ·but 0 1 bse·rvation indiiicates that suc'h men are not wo,r.tJh their rnlt. The plain man who says, I am not 1cultured or ed ucated, I don't kno,-.;,,' may be one of the vety beslt men in t h e world with whom to travel or to ca:mp. He is very often a j ewel in ,tJhe rougib, and such men help mak~ up th e warp and woof of e ffi c,ient commun ities. But the fellow wh o says, 'Oh! Yes, I am culcbawed , I have taken a six months' ,cou rs e in the corres1pondcmce school1 of philosophy.' Baib ! I 1emember hearing of a boy w1ho had ,this ki nd of education ,and w;bo was asked to der,cribe the human bor1y. He sai d: ·~ran is d·ivided in 1 to three p2rts-tbe head, the th'orax ,anrl the a·bdomen . His head con tairus his Li ains, his tongue and bis eyes. His1th1orax con tains bis hear t and 11:s lungs. H ' s abdomen contai ns hi" stoma,ch and t,he vowe ls, wh i"ch are a, E, i, o, a nd u, and so,medmes y and w.' ' Do not mistake a little smatheri ng of knoweldge for a real and thoroL!gh educatio n . E<ven though y,ou ca.n go only a sho 1 rt dis,tance, cover tbe ground thoro ugh ly and know well what you learned, then use it to I ad you on to O'thEr thing;s. A•L·ove all, cultivate L•he ha•bi,t of go·od reading. I think every ma•n s,bould have a little 1ibrary o,E h i,s, own, even if it is only a half dozen book" that be can carry with hi m in his trunk, book<· that be has tried and tei:-'te'd. b·o·oks that lhe loves, books on ,·d1ose pagEs h e can mark himself, books, h•e wrnl read witih 1bi's be1st gi,rl wh n he is fol'tunate ·enough to have one, and tba't they wiH per haps mal'k tQgetber as they r ead. Begin ea rly in life to have a M1ttle group of your own books. Take them int·o your life and so you will emrich your life with I.Jetter thoughts and i 1 deal s. Good books prod uce larger and nobh.r men, and give them a !' aner balance. T'bey increa,s•e ,a main's a1 n·ing pow r and als 1 0 ernlarge his value to th e community by m1aking him a lJett.. r man to live with." - Sigh of the Ex-Grad uates: \\'hen we me t upon th e <'ampu '-' How our ey s will fill with tears; \\'hen we think of all the ,happE>nings Of those bright and happy years; How we strove to get onr lessons So to please our tr 1 ac lwrs kind ; And upon all our tE>Hl papers \\'p a pasi;ing; g1 ade would find. 3