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THE HESPERIAN
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reptiles nt once. It is its business to incu
bate latent sympathies as well as dovolope
latent intellects. It has boon said of ono of
the "best students" that over graduated that
he never had time to attend anything but his
own commencement exorcises. Heaven
grant that ho may have time to bo present at
his funeral!
THERE is apt to como a timo at the goal
when one wonders why ho has run tho
race and what ho has gained by it. After
commencement is over, when the Senior sits
solemnly facing the realities, the things that
aro, he is apt to begin to wonder how much
his sheepskin is worth and what it stands
for. When he tries to remember what a
cosine is or tho difference between a gerund
and a gerundive ho is likely to think it does
not stand for very much. But it dooB not
matter much whether ho romomboi'B tho
second aorists in Kappa or not, ho will have
forgotten them all in five years, anyway.
But if ho can got more pleasure out of tho
good things of life than ho could four years
ago, if ho is bettor company for himself,
then his education is worth his diploma and
the blue ribbon too. Tho end of existence
is to feel clean and lofty pleasure, not to
know difficult facts. Tho race for knowl
edge has often been compared to tho old
Greek torch race in which the runner must
all through tho race watch that tho flame of
his torch did not go out. Too often in the
hurry of tho race the torch is forgotten and
tho maddened runners remember only tho
distance and their speed, and reach tho goal
with only a blackened stump in their hands.
Tho man who reaches tho goal with his heart
and sympathies dead within him is to bo
pitied. It had been bettor for him if, like
that old Greek runner who wont mad from
tho dazzling heat and whiteness of tho race
course, ho had sat quietly down by the way
side and watched the blessed fire of his torch
burn out, The distance one man can run is
nothing to tho infinite distance of space. It
is tho torch that is everything, all, that is
greater than all distance, greater than 'the
universe itself, that is tho God in man;
C trango, that faculty wo have for bocora
0 ing attached to things that are everlastingly
getting us into trouble. This bolovod sheet
has made mo more enemies and lost me
more friends than any other one piece of
rashnesB I over had on hand. It has made
havoc of everything generally, and called
down tho wrath of my professors upon my
head. And yot I am rather fond of it and
its typographical errors. If I dared offer
any advico to tho now editors, it would bo
this, if you want to star in your classes,
resign from tho Hesperian. A man can
not servo two masters, and the Hesper
ian thy paper is a jealous paper. It will
cause thee sleepless nights, monopolize thy
time and demand thy exclusive attention,
teach thoo profanity, and cause thy absconces
from thy classes to bo as numerous as tho
sands of tho soa or the marriages of Lillian
Russell. But it you really want to make
a martyr of yourself, and do your country
some good to your own possible injury, this
paper is a good place to empty your phil
anthropic zeal. You must not expect to re
ceive a martyr's crown, though, for you
won't got it. You will find that as tho merit
of the paper increases tho merit of your reci
tations will decrease in exact ratio. But if
you can stand to lose a little for the paper,
take for your motto, Ipsa Glorior Infamia.
I glory in my shame, and go in and fight it
out. Go in and win big. The paper is
worth sacrifice, it's boon a good paper,
and its going to be a better, Make it tho
greatest paper anywhere in the Northwest.
Give it time, and labor, and enthusiasm. The
best you have is none to good for it. The
Hesperian is a duty and' an obligation.
Don't lot it sink an inch, lift it higher. It
may not be for your gain, but it will be 'for
the University's, and that, after all, is "the
greater glory."
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