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Brevard College, Brevard, North Carolina, November 6, 1936.
THE
Brevard
CLARION
College Weekly
MEMBER OF NORTH CAROLINA
COLLEGIATE PRESS ASSOCIATION
Editorial
Odell Salmon Editor
Evelyn Swaringen Associate Editor
Monk Landreth Front Page Editor
Sturgis May Sports Editor
Staff
Columns: Betty Brookshire, Satenik Na-
hikian, Geraldine DeVier, Irene
Parsons.
Reporters: Bill Pope, Susan Bundy,
Annave Wilhelm, Mary Sue McGin
nis, Charles Dobson.
Managing Department
Clem Thomas Business Manager
Gene Matthews Circulation Manager
Faculty Advisers
Miss Craig, Mr. Andrew, and
Miss Poovey
Procrastination
“Procrastination is the thief of
time” is an expression that is
beginning to become too much
of a reality to the majority of us.
Our work has accumulated, and
now we have before us a stack of
undone work; and it seems a
solutely impossible to get it all
in at the required time. There
are essays, book reports, term
papers, parallel reports, and out
lines due in at approximately the
same time. ‘‘What’s wrong with
these teachers?’ we ask. “What’s
wrong with us?” we should ask.
And the ansv^er is simply this:
We have put off our work from
day today saying that we’ll do it
tomorrow. Finally we find our
selves in one big t( morrow, and
we have an impossible task in
trying to get all of our work in
at one time, with none of it
done well.
Wouldn’t it be splti did if we
could begin doirg our work when
it is assigned and da it in the
best possible manner at that time?
In this way cvr time would be
budgeted, and tach hour woulc
be profitably spent.
Life’s Bests
The following is taken from the
PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL JOURNAL.
The best law-The Golden Rule.
The best education--Self-know-
ledge.
The best philosophy-A content
ed mind.
The best theology--A pure anc
beneficent life.
The best war—To war against
one’s weakness.
The best medicine-Cheerful'
ness and temperance.
The best music-The "laughter
Can We Forgive?
This editorial may be a little
“morally inclined”, but we need
to take time out sometimes to
think of things like this.
Oftentimes we hear people who
have been done a little wrong say
“I’ll get even with that man if it’s
the last thing I do. ” They also
say, “I’m a good friend and a
good enemy.” Now frankly, is
that Christian? Christ said.
Love your enemies” and “Do
good to those who despitefully
use you.”
Quite frequently, petty griev
ances are carried far, and much
is made out of them because we
aren’t willing to forgive. It’s
hard, when we think that some
one has deliberately mistreated
us, for us not to proceed to try to
“get even”; consequently, a
series of unpleasant things hap
pen, and possibly an enemy
for life is the result. The best
possible thing is to do something
very good and helpful to the per
son who has mistreated you. Then
he will see, and invariably regret,
his mistake.
Especially in a place like this
we have to be able to forgive.
We all came to this school to
work together and to be on friend
ly terms and to help each other
out. We cannot have petty grud
ges. It is necessary that we all
work together for the common
good of the school. We must pro
mote good feeling. If we think
some one has done us a wrong
let’s stop and think for just a
while. Later we shall realize
what a small thing it really was
and shall be tremendously sorry
if we have taken any rash ac
tion.
I tell you, you are not to re
sist an injury.
sunshine from a cloudy day.
The best journalism-Printing
the true and beautiful on
memory’s tablet.
The best telegraphing—Flash
ing a ray of sunshine into
gloomy heart.
The best biography-That life
which writes charity in the larg'
est letters.
The best mathematics-That
which doubles the joy and
divides the most sorrows.
The best navigation-Steering
clear of the lacerating rocks of
personal contention.
The best diplomacy-Effecting
a treaty of peace with one’s con
science.
The best engineering-Building
Kaleidoscope
Human Interest-Comment-Events
By Odfll Salmon
of an innocent child.
The best science—Extracting | a bridge over the river of death.
who’s who in AMERICA
The first who’s who iN america
was printed in 1899. It contained
827 pages of two columns. There
were 8602 names“pe.'sons of spec
ial prominence in creditable lines
of effort”--with their degrees,
positions, functions, etc. listed.
The last edition, or the nineteen
th, has just come off the press.
In this edition there are 2878 pages
with three columns. 31,434 persons
are listed. In the first group there
was one person listed out of every
8602; in the final one oufof every
3910 scored a position in this
famous reference book.
In the final edition neither Ba
be Ruth, Mae West, nor Clark
Gable is mentioned. Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler carries more lines
than any other person. Herbert
Hoover has about thirty degrees
listed after his name.
THE BEST-SELLER
“A book to read, and re-read
and remember forever! . . .No
thing ever before written in this
field even approaches it!” That is
the utterance of a foremost critic
of the GONE WITH the wind.
Today 600,000 copies of this
best-seller have left the publish
ing housa of the Macmillan Com
pany. The printers began work on
this publication in the early part
of the summer, and the publi
cation date was in June.
FAULTS of the UNIVERSITY
Robert Maynard Hutchins
President of the University of
Chicago, in his new book the
higher learning in AMERICA Hsts
two main sins of the modern uni
versity. These, he asserts, are
the “love of money” and “anti-
intellectaalisn.” It is evident
what is meant in his first accu
sation; yet the second is not clear.
Here he means the teaching of un
related subjects, the teaching of
how to use and profit by law, re
ligion, and other professions in
stead of teaching what they are.
His other aspect of “anti-in-
tellectualism” is the gsrtheringof
facts as a research bureau.
OFF-MOMENT THOUGHTS
If you are too lazy to become
educated otherwise, read the fill
er in any good daily newspaper...
There is not such such a thing as
jazz mnsic; jazz is a way of mak
ing music....The betting odds on
the reelection of Mr. Roosevelt
were about 15 to 5; but, before the
election, all there was was odds—
no money Certain collega
boys, when you suggest that a
certain team will win on Satur
day, either pull out a roll or hold
out the hand for a gentleman’s
bet; it is either put-up or shut-up.
A “BAD COLD”
Why people
evident to any
a lot of colds;
add the bad?
call it a bad cold is
one who has had
but why do some
Should you feel a
cold coming on, decrease the con
tents of castor oil bottle, get
some nose drops, take a moderate
dose of soda, and hit the hay for
at least one day. While in bed
drink liquids (mostly fruit juices),
but drink all the water you can
comfortably hold. The diet is
most important.
AWAITING THE END
There is nothing more nerve-
racking than awaiting the end of
a detestable program. Many times
we feel as if we shall scream spon
taneously. Particularly are we
peeved if we are not excellent
“day-dreamers.” Occasionally we
hear a speaker who reads his
speech entirely; at other times we
hear speakers who have notes
from which to talk.
There is a famous public speak
er who reads hisspe?ch?s, and he
has his secretary to triple space
the writing. By this manner the
pages are read rapidly, and the
turning of pages quickly gives
the audience thj feeling that h;
will soon be through.
Some speakers conceal their
notes entirely; some use cards;
some use a folder in stationery
form; and it is this last type that
makes the audience wonder, as
the speaker turns on the final
page, if there are only a few
notes or if it is over-crowded.
There are, however, some
speakers that we wish would
never stop speaking.
The prison visitor was going
around the cells and was asking
rather fatuous questions. “Was
it your love for drink that
brought you here?” she asked a
prisoner. “Lor, no. Miss,” he re
plied, “you can’t get nothin’
here.”