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THE UNIVERSITY STODENT
March, 1929
AND WHITHER
SENIOR NOTES
By J. T. Wilson
JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY
H. L. Barksdale
Thoughts—from whence do they come,
why do they go and where? What is the
composition of these nebulous yet potent
rulers of a universe of cosmos and credo ?
Thoughts are man’s brain-children. With
them he weighs planets millinos of light
years away; with them he soars as the
bald eagle; with them he delves into all
secrets of cosmos and credo, questions all
things, and seeks solutions. He can think,
yes, but of the composition of one little
thought he knows naught.
To think, yet of what to think. To write,
yet of what to write. Some one has said
that the hardest thing to do is to attempt
to write when has nothing about which
to write.
Before me are excritoire, ink, pen and
typewriter. Could I but arrange thoughts
and sentences with logical senquence and
effect, I might write plays and beautiful
sonnets to delight the aesthetic sense
that would surpass those of Shakespeare;
poems that would surpass Shelley’s scien
tific reason that would excell Roger Ba
con’s, and prose to excell Burke’s. Great
men all and all great thinkers. Wherein
lay their success ? Were they born gen
iuses ? Or did they study, grow, study
harder increasing their intellectual scope
and subsequently gained success ? Where
in lay their mental superiority over the
layman’s mind ? What was their formula
of success ?
How many of us as admiring readers
of the accomplishments of great men have
despaired as did the youthful Alexander,
lest all great deeds should be finished ere
we stalked upon the stage of actions? And
to how many of us did Lindbergh’s feat
restore our aspirations, hopes and faiths ?
Did Voltaire, Caesar, Alexander and Ba
con perchance seek a formula for success
as we are seeking, or, perhaps, wonder as
we are wondering, before they gained
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success
Is there a formula for success? Is it
merely study, originality and expansion?
Said Guy de Maupassant: “If one has not
originality he should acquire it and taleht
is but long patience.” How does one ac
quire originality and long patience ? By
expressing his ego, by expanding his per
sonality, by being “himself?” Laying aside
his cloak of hypocrisy, his pose, his affec
tion? No one else is like him, neither is
he not a distinct indvidual, unique type ?
Why should he lavishly copy? Why mar
the beautiful tints of the rainbow with the
muddy colors of the quagmire ? Patience
is a gift from the gods and is said to be
a virtue. Can patience be acquired? .And
how? By governing and controling the
ego ? By developing along the lines the
Creator fashioned us ? “He that conquer-
eth self is greater than he that taketh a
city.”
Erudition, originality and expansion.
Should not each one study, expand and
work for himself? And studying, gain
success and happiness? Why trust to for
tune or await a “dens ex machina?” Why
heed the jeers of the proletariat who dis
parage you as a dilettante ? Have we not
our own entity to develop? Are we not
potential Bacons, Voltaires, Shakespeares,
Shelleys and Napoleons in the making?
Embryonic Caesars ?
Our Librarian, Prof. J. C. Bryant, an
nounces a list of new books which have
been recently placed on the shelves of the
Carnegie College Library. Fact and fic
tion on various interesting subjects will
be found in the long list of acquisitions.
Bill Ozier is successfully covering the
territory once so thoroughly covered by
one of his former Frat brothers. Go to it,
Bill; the pace was set long ago.
March, the windy month, has come with
its usual peculiarities of strong winds and
rain—sunshine at 8 o’clock and rain at 4.
Yet we all do like to see March because it
brings with it the Spring season and in
cidentally, this year, Easter. Its rain and
sunshine give new life to the seemingly
sleeping vegtation and the spirit of the
season gives life to annual and social
activities. Even while the basket ball
team was away on its Northern tour, the
students’ interest was graduallly turning
to the outdoor sports.
Bun Hayes, known by thousands of
lovers and supporters as “Puss” Hayes,
the famous Easter Monday thriller, will
take the mound for his final performance
as a Smith student. For three years
Hayes has been the Smith Bulls strong
hold in base ball competition with the
strongest schools in this section. He has
pitched sensational base ball since his
entrance here as a “dog” and from the
results he has made wonderful improve
ment as a mounJsman. The class is proud
of him because he surely reflects credit
upon the school as well as the class. On
his return from a basket ball tour. Bun
reports some very interesting events and
happenings. Although the team lost a
great many of the games played. Manager
Bun says he is well pleased with the
team’s performance.
Ben Squire has just returned from a
short trip to High Point, N. C., where he
attended the State Y. M. C. A. Confer
ence. There was nothing unusual about
this trip, simply “had a nice time,” but at
a more recent date, Ben took, not a trip,
but I believe it was to Attica or Sparta,
because when he leturned he showed evi
dences of having encountered Greeks.
Upon closely scrutinizing I discovered
that he was wearing a Phi Beta Sigma pin
representing the chapter at Livingstone
College, Salisbury, N. C.
Dick Cannady and Bob Crater, who
have been social rivals, for once have come
to a point where they can agree. Dick
said he would not rest until Bob was over
thrown! Bob said that he did not bar a
changeable man like Dick. Well, it has
come to a test and Dick’s dream has been
realized. It is interesting to know that
although Bob is down, it was not Dick
who threw him, but some mysterious
character. Well, any way I know the
“Soph’s” Crater is glad.
Oiseau Byrd must have a weakness for
some one in the city. Every night about
1 A. M. I look out of my window and see
him alight from one of Beatty’s Buicks.
That’s right, Byrd; let our business men
live.
Ralph Ricks is about to let the Green
ville, S. C., trail grow cold, because he
plans that it may lead him into some con-
jested section of the great social city.
Watch out for the great Spring festi
val—L. C. P. Dance. The writer is great
ly in sympathy with his class mate,
Ricks.
The North Carolina Teachers’ Associa
tion which will meet here during the
Easter holidays may leave some slight
changes in the Senior’s social routine. I
have been looking for a map to see if
Shelby is in North Carolina.
Extra! Paul Davis has found his stolen
Essex!
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Charlotte, North Carolina.
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