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Page Four THE UNIVERSITY STUDENT January, 192'J The University Student (Lux et Veritas.) Publi.shed Monthly by the Students of Johnsoii C.'Smith University, Charlotte, N. C. Printed at The University Press. Subscription price: ?1.00 per school year. Advei-tising rates furnished on request. Editorial Staff: V. H. CHAVIS -. Editor-in-Chief B. E. LOWE, ’2!), Associate Editor and Pub- li.sher. M. .1. WHITEHEAD, ’30 Secretary. PROF. T. S. .lACKSON, Treasurer. C. H. WHITE, Theology, ’29, Circulation Manager. E. -A,. McDowell, ’31, Business Manager. REPORTORI.AL STAFF: It. E. Jones, ’30 -- News Editor T. I). Jeffers, ’31 . News Editor C. C. Devane, ’30 . News Editor A. J. Clement, ’30 Feature Editor J. .A. .Ancrum, ’31 - . Sport Editor Entered as second class matter, December 22, 1926, at the post office at Charlotte, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. WHY NOT EDITORIAL COMMENT EXIT As the time ap|)roaches for the retire ment of the present regime of staff officers there is a feeling of both regret and exul tation. .As is the case with every under taking, even in life icself, there are trials and tribulations, joy and complacency. In toto, however, we feel that we have ben efited the student body and our Alma Ma ter as well. In retu’rn we have been bene fited our.selves. We appreciate the singu lar honoi’ given us, and trust that w’e are recompensed for oiu- indefatigable efforts and constant struggle by your gratitude. In our initial edition we urged freedom of expression, though, at times, we have failed to publish it. Nevertheless it was our endeavor. Do nor be dismayed, however. It is round by round we ascend the ladder. “.Ayez patience.’ Some day “The Student” may be the authovitiitive organ of the stu dent body. I pray that that day will dawn upon us soon. We are happy to state that the present incumbency has seen “The Student” grow from a four page issue to one of eight. Our exchanges have in creased. from only 111 to 243. With pos.sibly a .few exceptions it has come from the pi’ess as scheduled. Among our regrets is the fact that “The Student” is not on a paying basis. With the finan cial support of the entire student body we will not only be able to publish our sub sequent editions, but wil have some left in the treasury. Students, ponder over that. We appreciate the encouragement and co-operation given by a small few in sub mitting material and in assisting the Cir culation Manager. Especially do we ap preciate the assistance of Messrs. T. Jef fers', C. C. De Vane and A. J. Clement. As our conclusion we are reprinting an excerpt from the final issue of the last staff. .Accordingly. , To the student body: 1. Pay your subscriptions on time and ■without extra dunning by staff represen tatives. • 2. Have matter for publication in the hands of staff, representatives before the fifth of each month. 3. Talk the paper up among friends anr! thus secure ads and subscriptions. 4. Select for' youi- staff officers men who arc, in spite of class, fraternal affilia - tions or athletic ability, specially adapted to newspaper work, and try to elect men who are not already overburdened by ex tra curricula work. The rejuvenation ot the Alexander Du mas Reading Circle was indeed a progres sive step. Such club.s are an asset to ou!’ institutio7i or to any college. I often won der why there are not more similar c u .s in oui' midsL Apropos what has become of the Philosophy and Platonic Resjarch Clubs? The existence of the former f u many years on our campus gave impe.u; to much creative thought. In its assem blage students would give vent to their o ■ opinion without fear of rebuke; there those impellant ideas which were thwarted in the class room could bo dispensed with impu nity. I he real self was evoked, ft wa:- always interesting to listen to those who agreed with the views of Judge Den Lir. say or hear disputations upon the validity of Christianity. Both sides of any qurs tion were tolerated. Nothing without rea son was its slogan. What could have been more profound ? At present we are dormant or else ob sessed in other minoj- activities. Let us awake from this lethargy. Revive the phil osophy club and let it give rise to the for mation of others. Why not a scientific club, one in the Department of Education a yl other Departments. Social clubs ex's’: why not those of more intrinsic and ul i- mate value ? Why not organizations to do research and to make investigations in their respective field.s? The class room c.an impart only a small part. It is hoped that the Alexando- Dumas Club will continue its existence and not banish immediately after securing repre sentation in the ‘Bull.” Y'our aim of rcvl ing the best in Literature is not to be ex celled. Are you acquainted with Cicero’s reaction concerning reading? “Books a’v the food of youth, the delight of old age; the oi’nament of prosperity; the reiuge and comfort of adversity; a delight a' home; and no hindrance abroad; compan ions at night, in trav-eling, in the country." Do not forget thar, any form of research club is beneficial to any thinking s'udent body; more so than social clubs or frater nities \vhich have then" good points, but as many bad ones. No one should deny yoir- raison d'etie. Agani, let us pinch our selves and throw off that somnolence. .MRS. .1. .M. PRIDE In the re’cent demise of Mrs. Jessie M. Pride the students of Johnson Gi Smith University sustained a great loss.i Al though not officially connected with the iny stitution, she W'as ever a- constant. and en thusiastic supporter of all phases of its-ao- tivities and always hospitable .towprd students. At all atliletic contests .her. d'acp could be discerned among, the Sipi.ih rooters. She was the .w'U'c of .the -la^e, Pv.o.f, S. B. Pride, a graduate of,; and, fo.r a. while, teacher at our Alma, Mater, wl-iich, at that time, was'Biddle University. She was the mother of Prof. S. B. Pride, Jr., and Mr. Philip II. Pride, the former an alumnus, and the lattei- q student of, Johnson C. Smith University. . Words are iiieffable to describe the my- i-iad virtues of the deceased. Her religion and Christianity were exemplified; by her actions, yet not' ostentatiously as the Phar isees, for she' was free, fro.p-1 hypocrisy. Her. disposition was an.isble at all times. I know of no better social leader. She was, indeed, cosmopolitan. She was always sin_ gula-ly optimistic, having utmost confi dence in the younger generation. There were none among 'as v ho gave moi'e en- couravi ment to struggl'ng school b'-ys; in. spiration and goodness seemed to have emanated from her veiy being. Just to know her was to admire and esteem her. It v'o'S sh'^, indubitably, that was the moth_ er, to the Smith boys. W’henever one wished a favor, it ovas .she whom he sou>-ht, who, out of commiseration an daltrui.sm, granted it. By this close contact, we are moi'e able to realize and keenly feel also the bereavement of our schoolmate, and the other bereaved ones. I know of no one on or near the campus whose death w'e would regret as much. May we betimes fashion V, L-i- lives in the foniiof this great woman our prog.ss, but invariably interes.ing and a human panacea for our troubles. .4ND THE FINE FRUITS OF COLLEGE. Four Seniors graduating from Cornell in Juno, 1928, evaluate, anonymously, in the Cornell Sun, their four years as under graduates in the College of Arts and Sci ences. "Books! What loathsome things! Books ire inventions of the devil and the college professor. Books have taught me little and it is from human contact that Eve found the joy in these past four years. "Inspiration, sympathy, understanding, and succor were never confined within my classroom walls. The best that I have found has been without them and in the nature of a few faculty friendships, but hen it was not the good professor’s fault: it was my own ineptitude. , “Crumbs of wisdom which fell I'rom the munching of many academic crus.s were eagerly devoured. Yet such food for four years has made me no stout er mentally and has left me an acute at tack of intellectual indigestion. I know' not wtat it is all about. If Cornell has done one thing, it has made me realize how much in this w'orld lies beyond the common touch. "Cornell has democratized, liberalized, individualized me, and permitted me to es- tabl.sh a new philosophy of life, perhaps a philospohy more ]n..ctical than that of many idealists, yet one which will ade- 'l-.a.ciy serve. Forget the past, work hard now', and prepare tor the future is my philosophic trilogy. “I came to Cornell for an education, and 1 l.ave it still uneducated, but, perhaps, more civilized and more suited to meet the lin.bicms of life. It has made me critical bui, not cynical. And as I near the end of .in period in' which I have stored up sev enty thousand dollars w'orth of fu'iure earning power I feel that these four years have hot been in vain even though I can not now' cslvmate their true w'ori,li.” democracy abroad "Stephen Leacock and countless others ’ 'f i ■ 1 ' 't ’ I ' ^ hive niade familiar to all Dartmouth stu- oen'ts the nVany benefits wdiich Oxford Uni- viisit.v derives from ivy on its buildings, 'tea during its afernoons and smoke at its lucctings. with the tutors. The value of the indhpendent study, the scholarly traditions and the divisrjon into sheep and goats by the . Honors and Pass system has been tressed, Oxford and Cambridge have pro duced good scholar,s ni a country, w’hich is all but worshipped by upper class but still coUinial -Americans. The reasons ;■ have been, sought, and -br ought back by ' educa- catior.al experts and Rhodes scholars. Too Often the. talk has been of the leisurely at mosphere ■ created by .gouty dons and eighteenth century buildings, and all too rarely' ha-Sc-uhe supe'iior elementary tr lin ing in’'ic'r.l?irfed homes been given creel At lOLst'■'s'bme English University matricu- l-mts go iip to the university towns from hollies where money is not the gooal it is 'n America.' But that is not the point' of this edito rial. One of ihe minor rca.sons Whv Oxford and Cambridge turn out a diffeffrent if not a better product than American institu tions may be a difference in internal structure of the I niversily. and College governing organization. The fellows of a college instead of a board of truffe s have the .final word in a decision or dispute of internal college busines.s. While this rad ical difference from the usual American University system of control is. neither The aesthetic and the religious are tw'o aspects of the human spirit that actually exist and that ought to be discussed, stu died and developed. Thirty years ago we were taught that art could not be taught, today an understanding of the nature and but could be only felt and practiced. But the development of the beautiful through the media of painting, sculpture and archi tecture, music and literature leads our stu_ dents by the hundreds to an appreciation of the beautiful in their own souls. Many of them start with an objective study of schools and periods and end with a glow of appreciative understanding of lovely things that they never lose. This is real teaching. It is nothing else than an aesthetic awakening of the mind to beauties before undreamed. But now-a-days students do not take much on authority. They either work things out for themselves or they do not get them. The teacher of art and religion can only build the staging. The student must lay the bricks of his spiritual struc ture by his own effc'rt. Dr. Buttrick, one of the leading authorities on religious edu cation, says that a college is an organized opportunity for self-education. Why, yesterday the great religious aim was to save ourselves from a burning hell, but today some people are not sure that there is a burning hell, and most thinking individuals are willing to put in their time being respectable people and in raising the level of goodness, truth, and beauty among those with whom we come in con tact leaving our personal salvation in the hands of a Greater Power than ours, with out prejudice. Our young people are amazingly igno rant of religion. M ith the falling away of home training our students do not know what it is about. But they are willing to find out. The man v.ho is ignorant of and is not interested in religion is in the same class with the man who is not interested in science, or art, or the social sciences. Real religion is moi'e fundamental than creed or dogma, and our young people are in the primitive state just at present. Investigation of the early forms of reli- gion—the primitive consciousness with all its myths, magic and ritual, the distinctiie contributions to religious life made by the more influential traditions of the past may be critically surveyed, as for example; the Greek gods. Buddhism, the Mosaic Law, the prophets of ancient civilization as -n'cll as the early forms of Christianity. The teacher must be of broad and deep religious sense, a feeling for youth, a schol ar’s temperament, and the power of clear expression should be his. (A clergym.an without a job will not do.) We must remember that we do not put new wine into old bottles. When new wine is put into old bottles, the latter breaks and both bottles and wine are wasted. But we actually have new mne in the new attitude of our younger generation. T. S. J. widely heralded nor unilersto;- i, its conse quences'fnay be of immense import. Hiring and firing of the teaching staff being in the 'hands of the indivdual colleges instead of ni those of tru.stees as here, allows the expression of more honest opinion than is possible in some American institutions. While the right of freedom of speech may not be th(' only matter of high importance in the life of a teacher, it is typical of several other rights which an English col lege is capable of preserving for itself. —The Dartmouth. The- man who trusts men will mke few er mistakes than be who distrusts them.— —Cauer.
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