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The Bates Student Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 9-1896 The aB tes Student - volume 24 number 07 - September 1896 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 24 number 07 - September 1896" (1896). The Bates Student. 1978. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1978 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. For Positions to Teach, APPLY TO • • TEACHERS' CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND, 36 Bromfleld Street, BOSTON, MASS. Bates Students have been very successful with us. F. B. SPAULDINO, Manager. Positions filled, 2,172. Send for Manual. •> PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY. 213 Lisbon Street, Corner of Pine, LEWISTON, ME. HAMMOND. IS AT THE FRONT Actual business by mail and common carrier at With all the Latest Novelties in CLASS WORK. Ik Ikm J3SL Grtkft CALL AND SEE HIM. Portland and Augusta, Me. 172 Lisbon Street, - LEWISTON, ME. F. L. SHAW, Principal, - - - Portland, Me. Rensselaer \ ^.Polytechnic^ 149 LISBON ST., LEWISTON, ME. Complete BUSINESS and SHORT-HAND Courses. <X Institute, SEND FOR CATALOGUE. X Troy, N.Y. N. E. RANKIN, PRINCIPAL. Loc*l examinations provided for. Send for a Catalogue, INSURE YOUR LIVES IN A RELIABLE COMPANY.V piotual Hit Lite lpran.ee 60. OF NEWARK, N. J. Establlshed.1845. Its reputation has been established by over fifty years of successful business. All students contemplating life Insurance for security or investment should write for sample policy, giving age, to M. M. & D. F. FIELD, Agts., Rrnllllps, IVIe. ATTWOOD & BARROWS, jrrri*- GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, Boots, Shoes, and Rubbers, HATS, CAPS, AND UMBRELLAS, Under Auburn Mall, AUBURN, ME. THE BATES STUDENT VOL. XXIV. SEPTEMBER, 1896. No. 7. EDITORS FROM CLASS OF 1897. J. STANLEY DURKEB Editor-in-Chief. CARL E. MILLIKEN. EMMA V. CHASE. RICHARD B. STANLEY. NELLY A. HOUGHTON. EVERETT SHILLINGS. FRED W. BURRILL, Business Manager. RICHARD B. STANLEY, Assistant. The BATES STUDENT is published eacli month during the college year. Subscription price, $1.00 in advance. Single copies, 10 cents. Literary matter should be sent to Editor-in-Chief; business communi- cations to Business Manager. Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at LewlftOD Post-Office. CONTENTS. A Complete Life 165 The Fellowship of Suffering K>7 The Measure of a Man 168 Herostratus 170 COLLEGE NEWS AND INTERESTS. 172 AROUND THE EDITORS' TABLE 177 BATES VEUSE 180 ALUMNI DEPARTMENT 18,'S COLLEGE EXCHANGES 187 OUR BOOK-SHELF 188 CLIPPINGS 1<K) A COMPLETE LIFE. tiful, the richness, the perfectness of N artist paints a beautiful picture, the work is due to the presence of each and the world stands in wonder part, blending with and enhancing every and admiration before it. Among the oilier, thus forming a symmetrical aud throng some venture an opinion. One beautiful whole. says, "The artist's skill consists in And just as these failed to under- graceful drapery " ; another, " Rich col- stand this picture, so do men continu- oring gives the painting its beauty " ; ally fail to understand, what is of vital and still a third, "The painter excels importance, the truly beautiful life, in delineating faces." But all these Some few think they discover life's fail to interpret the complete beauty meaning. This one would give all for of the picture. They do not see that pleasure ; another says knowledge is while each element alone may be beau- the only worthy aim for man ; while 166 THE BATES STUDENT. that one yonder exclaims, "Learn to with all these evils. But while knowl- do one thing well, and your life will edge may do much to broaden and succeed." But all these are wrong. elevate us, just as long as we persist in As with the picture, no one gift or squandering our powers on the empty power makes life strong and beautiful. things of life, there is nothing that can The best life requires each part, whether develop our whole nature. We fail by physical, mental, or spiritual, fully de- making our lives artificial and selfish. veloped, but subordinate to one perfect Moreover, one of the hardest qualities whole. to acquire when it is lost, and yet one The symmetrical, complete life is the that is absolutely necessary before the ideal one ; but how far we are from whole man can develop, is simplicity. realizing this. Look at humanity, and Wheu we learn to like things and want behold how one-sided, ugly, deformed ! them simply because we know in our At first thought we say, how strange inmost souls that they are true and this is when such a beautiful life is beautiful, then are we ready to take possible. But consider.- It is only the the good God has for us in this worhl. few who look life in the face and try And just as we need simplicity, so also to understand its meaning. The mass we need unselfishness. As soon as a accept the world's standards almost man makes himself the centre of the y without a thought. In the hot race for universe, he will find that only very wealth, position, fame, "Who will be little worlds can revolve about him. first?" is the cry. And the throng The selfish man has merely his own rush blindly on, each trying to get small interests to feed his soul on ; so ahead of his neighbor, each eager for that he soon becomes dwarfed and the lion's share of these seeming treas- incapable of appreciating the true and ures. In this delusive race men spend the noble. But the man with the warm, their whole lives; and only realize the open heart has the whole universe to emptiness of these treasures when it is develop his powers ; so that his soul is too late. They are slaves to the world's continually growing more beautiful and opinions ; and almost all of us feel this complete. bondage in some degree. Perhaps we Then if we would have our lives read foolish books because they are perfect and symmetrical, we should popular. Possibly we follow some silly remember that only as we make them fashion, when we know that it violates simple and unselfish is this possible. our sense of the beautiful. And some- On these two qualities depends our times, it may be, we do not dare to power to use the gifts God has given take the unpopular side of a moral us for making our lives capable of all question. When we think how wan- the happiness, the usefulness, and the tonly we cramp and deform our lives, beauty in the divine plan. does it seem strange that they fall so If we have these two qualities, then far below the ideal? will each part of life do its share toward Some look to learning to do away forming this complete whole. Youth, THE BATES STUDENT. 167 life's morning, will be rich in hope and walk on, and let Nature with her joy- earnestness, and will furnish a wide ousness beguile you into forgetting that and firm foundation. Then the noon- there is such a thing as sadness, when day of life, from the fierce battles suddenly you start and shiver. What fought and won, will bring strength and is that blot on the landscape? Only a experience ; and old age will pick up funeral train, but somehow as the slow- the dropped stitches, smooth the rough moving procession passes out of sight edges, and blend the parts together into the light of the morning seems to have a graceful whole. And just as the fair faded. Ah ! need you go farther to day ends with the bright sunset hues, learn the lesson ? Yes, to learn it per- so the beautiful life closes not in gloomy fectly, it may be; yet in the midst of clouds, but with a glorious revelation of youth's glad harmonies your reluctant what may be hereafter, in the presence ears can have scarcely failed to catch of the Father of Lights, the Giver of at times the minor chord, while into every good and perfect gift, " with life's prime there has come again and whom is no variableness, neither again some dim perception, vaguely shadow of turning." felt at first, of the meaning of the EMMA V. CHASK, '97. words, " For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." THE FELLOWSHIP OF SUFFERING. Since, then, this is life's great law, "\I-r-F often hear it said that "the let us seek to find its meaning. There ti world is what you make it," and is said to be off the northern coast of there is surely much of truth in the Ceylon a submerged bank of about words ; for the optimist life has more twenty miles in length, where, for two of light than shadow, while the pessimist thousand years, extensive oyster fish- under the same circumstances reverses ing has been carried on. The oysters this rule. Yet even the lightest heart are sought, however, not for food but must sooner or later have its Geth- for pearls, and so many are found that semane, for we and all mankind alike the profits of the business in a single live under a law as unalterable as the year are often over a million dollars. law of sin and death, namely, the law Bat what are pearls? Whence do they of suffering.
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