THE WEAVER PEPl SYMPOSIUM
THE WEAVER PEP
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'Vm-IAMHART ■ I”;
January, 1925
PARAGRAPHICS
Th^e old year has passed out :
nis hoary locks are buried be
neath the sod. Nothing re
mains but a few faint mem-
ushered
in, filled with hope and strength,
holding in his hand opportun
ities and great possibilities. Op
portunities are here for success.
How are we going to use them?
* * *
_ Evety one seemed to enjoy
the holidays. It was quite a re-
liet to get away for a few days,
and forget about our school
Work. But our jmerry-making
. . - u- stuayT Let’s
make our time count!
* * *
We have had confronting us
great issues, which have called
for hard work and co-operation,
^ of the greatest issues
of the entire year must be met
within the next few weeks;
that is our mid-term examina
tions. Woe unto those who are
unprepared! If you’ll take a
piece of advice from me, a little
study interspersed with a few
college activities for the next
ten days .wouldn’t prove a dis
advantage.
^ Pfegasus had been champion
in the stall until Christmas
came and students betook them
selves homeward astride his
sleek back. Of course every
body had the best time and big
gest dinners too. From all ap
pearance it may safely be con
jectured that Cupid got in quite
:|c
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considerable job during" the
holidays, but then it might be
averred that he had been on the
job beforehand. Well, that re
minds, here we are back on the
campus, and most of us have
been on the job* beforehand and
it remains for us to finish what
has been begun. Altogether,
the fall session has been a very
evident success. It has been
very interesting to observe the
general course of affairs, mono
tony itself has been a rarity,
own effect.
With a glowing triumph in foot-
Promising outlook
for basketball, athletics go on
record as a great success. Even
a near - sighted, begruntled,
sparsely - whiskered old man
could say no less than “the
thing was well did.” So, there
remains nothing but a success-
lul baseball season to make ath
letics a complete triumph. What
has been said of athletics can be
said of college activities, and, by
the way, they are athletics too.
No one will deny that he has de-
exercise from trying to
meetings — usually
held immediately after lunch
scheduled at the same time; one
in room number six, the other
in the Chapel.
Several things of great im
portance have been accomplish
ed, chief of these are: A well or
ganized Sunday School on the
campus, the Epworth League
alert and working; good pro
grams and pageants as well as
charity work in the community.
Annual well under way; society
plays and literary work best in
the history; the College Council
considered among other things
an honor system for collegfe ac-
tivities which will be initiated in
the spring, and a better basis for
society work inaugurated.
WHY AM I?
Often I find myself soarino-
on wings of fancy in a
atmosphere, until I begin to
wonder at and question my eS
stence as a concrete being. I do
not lay any claim to insanity nor
Sv rnl "®ces-
sanly considered as the idip
_In these times of thought I
I cast So.S'^'"^^ ^ reallf am!
i cast about in a sea of thoue-ht
e?tS^ ^ discover-
i beyond a doubt
Perhaps I would not have known
som^oS no?
quoted to me the words of an
fhfnt"said “I
think, therefore I am.” Since I
as proof that I am, which seems
knowleS^^^ definite
aTI I possess.
^ After I have decided that I
most assuredly am, there ariLi
S question I IS
challenged to answer: Why am I
^ have not^i^
dlv’?t^ ? making a
Sdv If Philosophical
study,yet this is a day when
nothing is accepted as just hap
pening, and a reason is sought
^r everything; therefore, there
T 7® reason for my being-
which I have not discovered.' In
^"swer to the ques
tion, why I am, I am faced with
problem. nanas loj
U 1 imagine that I
could have been, some one else
Js well as myself. Why have
the pecuhar characteristics and
individual traits, which compose
my personality not been incor-
porated in some other person;
in the pro
cess of hfe, been given charac
teristics which would have made
7j personality?
Would the other person, in this
^se, have been me, or would I
nave been the other person?
Hiven with another personality I
would, perhaps, be myself 'any
way , just why I would, I cannot
say.
Now, if I am, and cannot ex
plain why, and do not know why
I could not have been some one
I wonder if I will cease to
be; that IS, will there never again
^ personality ex
actly like mine, or will my per-
MISTAKES do not
SPELL FAILURE
It is _ well to mention the sonality, which constitutes ^p"
football victory exist infinitely thru the ages of
Til ® ® victury
and the sumptuous dinner there
after. Three cheers for the team
and Mrs. Henderson; the ban
quet for the faculty, reported as
a wonderful success; and last,
not least, the weekly socials—
simple, elaborate affairs, held in
plain view of Mrs. Pylant’s froht
porch. Sometime a full report
in detail of Sunday socials will
be made. The writer presages
it to be an article of much in
terest. It is hoped no one will
be ill-at-ease because of this an
nouncement. 2? .
the future in other physical
forms? If I concede that my
phpical make-up is an import
ant part of myself along with
my personality, and that the two
are inseparable as constituting
me, then I suppose that I wholly
cease to exist when my body
ceases to function.
In thinking along this line,' I
become hopelessly lost in a huge
mass of interrogations, and won
der if I a_m not a dual personal
ity ; that is, am I always‘myself ?
If not, who is the real me?
“Show me a man who makes
no mistakes and I will show you
a man who doesn’t do things.”
These words' were spoken by
and .admired Presii-
dent, ITieodore Roosevelt. How
consoling they are to the fellow
wlw_ is trying to accomplish
something- worthwhile, but is
continually naaking mistakes.
Surely we make mistakes, and
senous ones, but life is made up
ot such things; so why worry?
As we begin the New, Vear of
1925, we look back over the
year that has just passed. Vis-
lons of things done and of
tilings left undone rise before
our eyes as ^gruesome spectacles .
of wasted time, and lost oppor-
tumties. Our mistakes seem to
be , so large in number that we
almost forget the good that has
been accomplished, for truly
there have been some good
things done. Through the mis
takes of twenty-four, we are
far more able to take up and
perfoim the duties of twenty-
universally known
lact - that human beings make
mstakes; man with all his wis-
dom IS fallible; therefore, it is
plainly seen that the who '
mistakes accomplishes
nothing. He: never;,tries> to do
anything, but sits,stiU'with.-his'^
hands folded while ' the world ^
~ rson-is as a pool of stagnant wa
ter, purely stationary, with no
outlet or inlet; just.a body oc-
cupying space which had better
be filled with something else. It ': ^
IS fa,r more commendable to try
and fail, than never to try at'
all.
As the' New Year enters we
should ^ begin doing things,
xasks that we failed to finish
last year can be taken up with
renewed interest, and completed.
Every year that passes we re
solve to do better and to profit
by the mistakes. of the past; ■
Many are the resolutions made, -
^me are kept, some are broken.
The cjTiic laughs at the man
who makes his New Year’s res
olutions and in a few days has
broken them.- But what of it?
There is no harm done. There
are people who have the will
power and the determination to
hold to their resolutions. The
flesh is weak, and the All Wise
gives some credit to man for
for trying.
New Year’s Day in China is
a holiday on which the Chinese
attempt to correct all mistakes
in the business world. They
pay their debts, and, in other
words, square themselves with,
their fellowmen. New Year’s'^
Day is not the only time that
mistakes can be' corrected and
wrongs made right. Every day,
hour, and moment, begins a
New Year filled with golden op-