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Brevai^ College, Brevard, North Carolina, Friday, March 1,3, 1936.
The Clarion
The Brevard College Weekly
Published from September to June while the
Collrge is in session, except on holidays and
during examinations.
$1.00 p»r ytar by carrier. If by mail $1.25
for th« school ytar.
Advertising R&tes given on Request.
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Editor-iD-Chief: William Davis
Associate Editors: Odell Salmon and Evelyn
Swaringen.
REPORTORIAL STAFF
Earl Pearson
Summers Maugans
Cecil Evans
Annie Donnell Patterson
Helen Avett
Sara King
Edith Beard
Katherine Coffey
Ida Whisenant
Bill Patton
Frances Goforth
Mary Lou Latham
Typist: John Odom
Business Manager
Assistant
Advertising Manager
Assistant
Circulation Manager
Assistant
Wilson Forbes
Clem Thomas
R. D. McNeer, Jr.
Bob Sumner
Mazon Murphy
Joe Allen
Faculty Advisers: Miss Craig. Mr. McNeer.
and Mr. Cathey.
Beating Around
the Bush
It is really difficult to decide what
we have or have not definitely learned.
There are many things we think we
have learned, and yet our actions
prove that we are still undecided about
them. We aire taught to discriminate,
to a large extent, during our childhood,
between right and wrong. Yet all
through life we are constantly having
to make decisions between the one or
the other that we hardly know how to
make. In this age of free thinking,
liberties of every kind, and every
standard and class of society mix
ed together, it is hard for even the
, matured, experienced pereon to know
just wha,t is the thing to do. What
deems to be nght to one person is
wrong to another. Pope says, “Tis
with our judgments as our watches,
non6 go just alike; yet each believes
his own.” Every young person has
to grapple with theories and problems
turn them around, tear them to
pieces, study them and come to his
own conclusion every day of his life,
and form new philosophies of life with
every new experience. Thus we see
that what we think we have learned
today, tomorrow may prove to be a
mistake. This search for truth con
tinues throughout life; for when a per
son reaches the place where he ceases
to question, to put aside old learning
and old theories to make room for the
new, he is no longer of much use to
this world.
So many of our difficulties would
be overcome if we couli^ just learn to
understand ourselves. But this is al
most an impossibility, though we cari
improve our personalities by making
more careful observations of our ac
tions dnd reactions. The human be
ing is truly a complicated affair, and
this we may be thankful for. It is
the conflict of personalities in us that
(either makes us or breaks us. It is
that which makes life interesting and
worth while. If we were all good or
all bad, how monotonous it would all
be. Striving with our emotions, hav
ing to make decisions, being tempted
with this and overcoming that, are
character builderSi A conflict in our
personalities proves all important,
since the whole object of our existence
upon earth is the building of strong
characters. We should not be dis
couraged if we seem never fully able
to understand ourselves, for this is the
broadest and deepest problem to be
solved, and one which has never been
cohipletely mastered.
It takes much beating around the
bush to come to any conclusion; and I
think that, in this paper, I have done
enough of that.
Granite
Margaret Slagle
Long, powerful
The arm of the crane
That lowers itself
Into the deep, treacherous pit,
Bringing up stone.
Large boulders
To be crushed — some of them;
Others to be carved and shaped.
Granite—
Beautiful and cold,
Costing the buyer but little
money.
Costing a lowly laborer in the
quarry
His life.
Next Issue
Examinations begin next Monday
and following the examinations there
will be a holiday until March the 24th.
For these reasons The Clakion will
not be published again until April the
third.
Valilie of Junior
es
Everywhere junior colleges are
springing up, proving that the public
is i-ecognizing more and more the value
of a junior college education. We stu
dents of Brevard College are, along
wth students of other junior colleges,
indeed lucky for at least two outstand
ing reasons. First, it is probable that
the time is coming when two years of
college will be added to the high school
curriculum and supported by the state.
This means that the average person
in the future will have two years of
college education; and unless we stu
dents of the present day do not have
at least a junior college education, we
will not be fitted to meet the competi
tion offered us by the others in the
activities of life. At least two years
of college is fast becoming a necessity.
The second outstanding reason is the
fact that the step from most of our
existing high schools to universities is
so great that it may 6Ause a serious,
even permanent, maladjustment in
the life of the student. Junior college
is a bridge over which we cross the
dangerous river between the two in
stitutions of learning. Not only is it
a stepping-stone between two very
different types of study, but it is a
shock absorber between two very
different types of social life. There
is enough personal contact with both
faculty and other students in a junior
college to make the student feel less
the abruptness of the change in his
way of living.
There is a growing sentiment in
favor of the junior college. The future
looks bright, and we who attend them
can feel proud that we are among the
first to take advantage of their oppor
tunities.
Why Not Open the
Library at Night?
During the cold winter months the
library, as well as other parts of the
Administration Building, was closed
at night in order to save fuel. This
was certainly a good move. But now
that it has warmed up considerably
we wonder if it would not be best to
open the library at nights as was the
practice before the cold spell. There
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