The Gavelyte, November 1914

8 Tl IE ~ VELYTE. The Gavelyte P BLJSHED BY THE Students of Cedarville College, Cedarville, Ohio. Entered as Second Cl .t s '.\l,t il Matter, in the Post Office at Cedar– ville, Ohio, J;1nuary 6, 1900, under th e act of March 3, 1 79. All correspondence to "The GAVELYTE"-Office on N. Main St., Cedarvill e, Ohio. Subscription Rat e 7'fic pe r yea r-Stng le Cop ies, 10c. E DITO RlAL STAFF W. D. Ste m· tt , '1!) ............................... .. ............ ... Edito r-in-Chief Ralph S. Elder, '17 ............................ .... .......... ......... Associate Editor \V. Emery Hoskin on, '16 / Ruth R. H a rris, '17 \ ................................. ............. Society Editors Mary E . Bird, '16 I David C. Bradfute, 'l? ~ ............................................. ........ Local Editors A. Alberta Creswe ll, '10 ............................................. .... Alumni Editor Bl' SI. ESS STAFF R. Cec il Burns, ' 15 ... . .. ................................. Business Mgr. and Treas. J. R. i\[cCo rkell, ' 15 I H . F . Bird, '15 \ .... ........... ........ ......... ........ .......... ..... Ass't Mgrs. David C. Bradfute, ' 16 ......................................... Subscription Manager EDITORI A L. Thi s word is common among ce rtain clas;;es ·:.>f p,~0 ple today. .A 11 "auto," in order to have an easy market m,1st ra.ve "speed." This Hfe today is cne rmhing confusion. Everytbod y ii, 2~ more of a hurry than than the other. J.f a person has ever witnessed a crowc SPEED. ed thoroughfare in a large c·ity, the confusion caused by t.he rush of city Hfc is very evident. iA certain famcns •instructor in a medical school was continually giving this adv'ice to his st 1 1dent"- : "Go s!ow, young gentlemen, you have no tiDJe to lose." 'Thii s seemin,g con trz.dictlion oontains a golden truth. Man)- students rush through 1 colleg0 to secure a couple of let– ters, cal1ed a degree, forgett ing that a college •diploma has no value in itself sa·;e as it is 1backed by the intell ectual powers of the holdi:r. A college training is not an t:ltimate end, but rather an intermedh!.e end. It is hut a mean!:' to an end. It is t o lning for life. The gen tle– men referred to a1bove were not merely to f,tudy a oeertaiin amount :i.mi to perform a given numlb~r of operations in as short a time as pos– silble. They were to secur e the greatest amount of knowled3e and