The Gavelyte, November 1906

then the effort to achieve will be lessened in strength by just aR much as this ideal is less than the highest t~at possibly can be conceived. But a lofty ideal is like a tender plant that needR all your care to nurture it. Let the intertsity of your purpose be as the sun's rays warming it. Let your love and devotion be as the s.oil feeding it. Let the deversity of your efforts to attain it ue as the winds strengthening it. Keep from it the frosts of avarice conceit hypocricy and self indulgence and at the last your ideal will blossom forth in its maturity the wonder and admiration of the world. And you ask what this ideal should be? Forgetting those things wllich are behind and reaching forth unto thol'ie things before I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. .This then should be your ideal to be a Christian and you are striving for the prefect which ii4 God and your idea1 is that of the limit of finiteness for it is the prize of thti high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Vacant Hours. In his uright and busy college days, a vacant hour in the daily sched– ule of a student, adds muc-h as a rule, to the brightness and detracts con– siderably, sa<l though it may b11, from the industrious element. Students finding themselves free for this short time are supposed to make themselves as little conspicuous a possible, preparing possibly (a le:-son) for the day which has been neglected the day before, as sometimes is the case. To be strictly truthful a few model students have lived up to this supposition and in every way bave been a c1 edit to their Alma Mater But there are the others who really think that fate has ~rranged it so that this hour of relaxation falls deservedly to their lot and they therefore seek to fill it completely with happeni_ng. of eve1) detcriptit n such as rac– ing through r,,:rririers, up and down stairs, among harassed professors in every way their brain may conjure up, and in order to give a fellow studPnt some excitement hide any pro~ erty of his which is available. Not only in school days do these vacant hours appear but also throughout our entire life. Very few indeed th~y are in the lines of the hardworking man tint alaR they comprise the greater part of the idle fellow's clay.