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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
SENIOR NOTES
By Charles Morgan
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Midas, we are told, had ass’s ears, but his modern
disciples go the whole head.
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Entirely too many youngsters are rushing into the
professions instead of the corn field.
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I have never yet known a man to borrow any money
at a bank on the unctuosity of his amen.
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Two worthy Seniors have been given parts in the
coming operetta. We refuse to reveal their identity.
Both are actors of note.
Seven of the Senior girls took the civil service ex*
amination on the seventh of March. This examina
tion was for assistant matron.
Mr. Mote came into room seven one day and asked
for a teacher for the seventh grade. Flora Harper
was selected and did very well. A few days ago she
completed her teaching by assisting in a program
given by Miss Lundquist’s room.
We nearly forgot: The Seniors are very grateful
for the splendid service rendered them by Miss French
and Miss Mount joy, when they took it upon them
selves to prepare a very delightful luncheon for the
Seniors after the play! We certainly enjoyed the de
licious sandwiches and coffee.
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Strike the religion and poetry out of a people and
you reduce them to the level of educated animals.
IF I WERE YOUNG
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Do not, I beseech you, waste your sweetness on the
desert air, but make your ebullient learning butter
your parsnips.
F I were young I think I should, while
studying geography and arithmetic, also
give some little time to a consideration of
myself. I would not show any favors to my
whims or caprices, but would try to arrive at a
true understanding of just what I was worth
at this or that thing. I would not try to be
old before my’ time, but I would endeavor ’to
avoid the follies that usually go with young
man- and womanhood. To be silly is no more
excusable in youth than in old age.
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I have no more quarrel with a man for differing
with me in religion than for fancying a blonde type
of beauty while I prefer the brunette.
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You cannot measure the moral code of man or beast
until you have ascertained the moral code applicable
to the civilization or intelligence of his kind.
The noblest success this world can boast is the man
who creates wealth and uses it wisely; the most pitiful
of all failures is the man who succeeds only in making
money.
Real men, whatever their religion or race, their edu
cation, occupation or intellect; the men who glory in
their work regardless of reward, are the world’s he
roes and its hope.
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It is easy enough to say grace over a good square
meal, to be honest on a good fat income, to praise the
Lord when full of pie; but just wait until you get the
same razzle-dazzle the devil dished up for Job and see
how your halle-hallelujahs hold out before exalting
your horn.
I stand with Moses on Sinai’s flaming crest, then I
go forth beneath the eternal stars—each silently pour
ing its stream of sidereal fire into the great realm of
Darkness—and they seem like the eyes of pitying
angels, watching man work out, little by little, through
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the long ages, the mystery of his life.
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TF I were young I would endeavor to escape
| the charge of being foolish. I, of all people,
would take myself seriously. This does not
mean that I would not grant myself the legiti-
mate joys of life, or that I would pose as a saint,
or a model for anyone excepting myself.
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would give me great satisfaction to approve of
what I did every day of my life.
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other person could possibly know me,
I would consider myself as a sort of su
preme judge so far as I was concerned. If I
were young I would do my utmost every day
to live right, to obey the Golden Rule, to devote
my energies to the betterment of self, for in
these things I would be giving the greatest
possible service to my community, my state,
and my nation. This is what I would try to do
if I were young.
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