Monmouth Collegian (Newspaper) - May 25, 1886, Monmouth, Illinois Monmouth MAY 25,1886. 18. COLLEGIAN JOINT STOCK habit of students going to one another's rooms and preparing their lessons has became quite of In at the at ways there are to be second class mail n by so but more per if not paid it Those who are within two Single 10 i i i i Copies can be obtained at tlie not at taking hold 01 a mouth book Collegian will he sent to are generally quite willing ordered ones communications should be ad- And thus they fall to the Business all others nn to The Monmouth on thrown on their own entirely It is better for a student to learn at first to rely on his own and then he will never need to depend on the tance of in Sadie S. K. T. M. Eva - - J. E. - 11. H. OF 1 2 ' Fanatic in 2-s thinks of the the time The senior no longer wends his I way to and from the college but wanders about witli uncertain His face lias lost its accustomed and in its place is a look 5 0 at hand when he must leave the sheltering roof of liis and go out into the world to light the battle of life unprotected and He thinks qS his fellow and the and how he will be missed by he thinks of his so dear to and the tears trickled down his cheeks the thought that he must so soon part with tue shadows deepen on his he is the impersonation of but suddenly it occurs to him that commencement is drawing that he has not yet written his and which is to win for him undying so with his burden of he betakes himself to parts are being made by the class of for a reunion commencement It will be remembered that the principal founders of the were members of this men judge others by he who could respect others must first respect and he that would be respected others must first respect for how can he hope to Avin the esteem of others who has none for When one has lost all self respect there is no check to his downward self-respect is the quality that raises man above the is wonderful that the art of conversation is not more Years are often spent in study after the acquirement of and elegance in writing of and the power to in public and yet no effort is put forth to cultivate the conversational It is too often thought that eloquence in conversation is to be acquired by a constant of thought or the manner in which the language is Some of the greatest conversationalists the world has produced have been men who not naturally fluent and attractive but who by careful cultivation of their powers have gradually become masters of this desirable art. They are the men whose is always and whose influence is greatly It is sufficient to have something to and a good manner in which to say but the time for it must also be How many there who without regard to the give expression to to say the and thus often make themselves exceedingly As there is a time for so there is a time for every and by care the habit can be acquired of expressing in proper time and of each He who really self-esteem will do all that he can to elevate his Self-respect is an element of one has a perfect and undisputed right to preserve his own reputation and no one may try to welfare of the the possess him of this This holds good in small as well as great Small statements are as truly lies as greater ones of the same Words would fail to express our unbounded contempt for to obtain a small amount of seeks to expose a fellow student to contempt and by making false But although it is extremely unpleasant for him who is thus placed in a false he suffers most who has used his influence to bring upon contempt and He has revealed his true and instead of gaining has lost the respect of all whom he especially desired to make his They wish to be respected and honored must show respect for the rights of pouring of water into the gas a week ago last Thursday by which an attempt was made to break up Junior and the daubing with paint the front of the college building and memorial were acts capable of being performed only by of It is difficult to understand how any and especially a student of Monmouth can find any pleasure in skulking about in the campus under cover of committing which he would be even to in Yet it cannot be denied that there are a very few students in college who delight in these And this is the would it not be well for the faculty to make greater efforts to capture the offenders and meete out to them their just next issue of the will be the last for this college and in consequence of the commencement exercises the paper will be We expect to publish most of the class night performances and will endeavor to give a full report of all the study is a weariness of the There is a knack in so as to get the greatest benefit in the least Much of the time put in studying is absolutely Taking up a branch that they have no inclination they study it in a dreamy sort of and in the end do not have a idea of what it so to understand it at all it must be entirely gone over There are other times when it is impossible ' to rivet the attention upon the The knack is to overcome ' The just as the ' becomes tired and needs A change of occupation oftentimes is ' So when it is difficult to study ' one it may be easy to study and afterwards the mind will see its Avay more clearly through the But above plenty of sleep is The midnight lamp has destroyed more men than it ever For a while its votaries have astonished the world by their but in their when they should have been they were prematurely cut off. The hot-house minds are not the minds that accomplish the most Educated men are those whose like good improve with Headaches and nervousness in the is a sign of disordered whose only cure is of Rest is the panacea that gives health and long life to evil that men live after the is oft interred their Such seems to have been the condition of things in Shakespeare's but in this age of and happy is that whose good works are not hurried long before his There are individuals in almost every who seem happiest when they can find in the actions of some one a plan which they amplify until it has reached the desired then they hurl this a malignant at the character of the unlucky hoping to destroy his good name or to make his influence of no Persons of this kind are not yet there is a greater who indulge in gathering all the little mistakes of every day life merely for the sake of They wish to talk about nothing nor do they know any thing else to talk Their victim is generally one who has succeeded better than one who is alive in the world and is letting the know one who exerts an influence where ever he is. Their aim is to cause others to underestimate the real virtue and of their meet such persons at and in the as well as on the and in Although we guard carefully what Ave say and yet Ave cannot overcome a feeling of uneasiness in the presence of such persons lost Ave ourselves be the next object of their Perhaps no it is a more prevalent in society than this habit of relating and conversing about the of Avere better ' If yon can not speak Avell of a do not speak of him at except at times it is a moral duty to make known his Persons most guilty of the habit of gossiping are not likely to be of it as a result of this habit they are led into then i turn around and to ' cast the blame on some one Why this should is hard to yet there are in other seem to be ' guilty of this sad is a good thing to see men deeply in and yet there are more to be than those have but according to We often see men rush headlong into and make miserable whereas a moments reflection have shown them that the acquirement of the object demanded greater efforts than they could put And thus they would been saved from the disgrace of failure and the derision of those who Avith more temperate natures are treading but surely the road to
