Author: Janet R. GracePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332804606
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Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Excerpt from Tipyn O' Bob, Vol. 14: October, 1916 To begin the year with a confession and a discovery: in college we do not learn most from our teachers or from each other - at least directly but from ourselves. We are comically eager to talk about ourselves, to show what we are among our kind, and we soon find that this needs exact analysis. We are not to-day as we were yesterday. Strangely our points of view, even our principles, are changing. We are appalled, perhaps, but certainly interested. We realize how ephemeral is an opinion and wonder if it be worth while taking a position in which we did not stand last week and from which we shall probably recede before the term is out. Tip believes that the development of character during four years of college is largely brought about through the conflict of opinion. We are all inexperienced and, from that standpoint, our ideas are all equally worth less. But we are crowding each other into shape, and, most of all, we are learning to make decisions where there is no older person to advise or correct. Therefore we claim indulgence, remembering always that we speak only to one another. We are confident as being sincere, and our faith is the good faith of common citizenship. When asked by anxious parents if there is any hazing in her college, the loyal Bryn Mawr undergraduate is always very much shocked and replies without hesitation that no such thing exists. In fact she feels rather heated at the suggestion. But if this lofty attitude of denial is justified, what is it which causes the almost constant friction existing between the Freshman and the Sophomore classes? Every year the Same thing has occurred; it will occur this year, and possibly may continue to occur in spite of the illuminating suggestions of this editorial. When the Freshmen see the Sophomores trying to break up their class meeting, trying to get their Parade song by fair means or foul, trying to break through their line in the hockey field, they naturally will take up the challenge, and will seek retaliation of some sort. They may find a rearrangement of the sheets on the Sophomores' beds of peculiar interest, or they may, do their best to arouse a general class antipathy, which will break loose some where in the realm of athletics. Then the Sophomores who have gained some wisdom perhaps, yet have not quite reached that almost superhuman degree attained by Juniors and Seniors, will get their feelings hurt, will inquire in injured voices how the Freshmen could have thought, etc. And to what is all this due? It is due to a few relics of a former system, relics so sacred that it seems almost sacrilege to mention them in this connection. We shall do so, however. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
