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A REMINDER.

Remember, students, that in training for the new opportunities for service and leadership which are surely coming to you, you must be trained, not only to think clearly and judge righteously, but also to mobilize thought and purpose into a working force and to command and wield this force effectively.

In a democracy the leaders are those men and women who not only know the truth and desire to tell it but KNOW HOW to tell it.

LELAND T. POWERS.

IF WE HAD THE TIME.

If I had the time to find a place

And sit me down full face to face

With my better self, that cannot show
In my daily life that rushes so:

It might be then I would see my soul
Was stumbling still toward the shining goal,

I might be nerved by the thought sublime, -
If I had the time!

If I had the time to let my heart

Speak out and take in my life a part,

To look about and to stretch a hand

To a comrade quartered in no-luck land;

Ah, God! If I might but just sit still

And hear the note of the whip-poor-will,

I think that my wish with God's would rhyme –
If I had the time!

If I had the time to learn from you
How much for comfort my word could do;
And I told you then of my sudden will
To kiss your feet when I did you ill;
If the tears aback of the coldness feigned
Could flow, and the wrong be quite explained,
Brothers, the souls of us all would chime,
If we had the time!

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RICHARD BURTON

LIFE AND SONG.

[This poem is taken from "The Poems of Sidney Lanier," copyrighted 1891, and published by Charles Scribner's Sons.]

"If life were caught by a clarionet,

And a wild heart, throbbing in the reed,

Should thrill its joy and trill its fret,
And utter its heart in every deed,

"Then would this breathing clarionet
Type what the poet fain would be;

For none o' the singers ever yet

Has wholly lived his minstrelsy,

"Or clearly sung his true, true thought,
Or utterly bodied forth his life,
Or out of life and song has wrought

The perfect one of man and wife;

"Or lived and sung, that Life and Song
Might each express the other's all,

Careless if life or art were long

Since both were one, to stand or fall:

"So that the wonder struck the crowd,
Who shouted it about the land:

His song was only living aloud,

His work, a singing with his hand!"

SIDNEY LANIER

ELOQUENCE.

1. When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.

2. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their

country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and snubbed, as in the presence of higher qualities.

3. Then patriotism is eloquent; then self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object, — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.

DANIEL WEBSTER.

TRUTH AT LAST.

Does a man ever give up hope, I wonder,

Face the grim fact, seeing it clear as day?

When Bennen saw the snow slip, heard its thunder
Low, louder, roaring round him, felt the speed
Growing swifter as the avalanche hurled downward,
Did he for just one heart-throb- did he indeed
Know with all certainty, as they swept onward,
There was the end, where the crag dropped away?
Or did he think, even till they plunged and fell,
Some miracle would stop them? Nay, they tell
That he turned round, face forward, calm and pale,
Stretching his arms out toward his native vale
As if in mute, unspeakable farewell,

And so went down. - 'T is something if at last,
Though only for a flash, a man may see
Clear-eyed the future as he sees the past,
From doubt, or fear, or hope's illusion free.

EDWARD ROWLAND SILL.

WORK.

1. What is wise work, and what is foolish work? What is the difference between sense and nonsense, in daily occupation? There are three tests of wise work: honest, useful, and cheerful.

that it must be

It is Honest. I hardly know anything more strange than that you recognize honesty in play, and do not in work. In your lightest games, you have always some one to see what you call "fair-play." In boxing, you must hit fair; in racing, start fair. Your English watchword is "fair-play," your English hatred, "foul-play." Did it ever strike you that you wanted another watchword also, "fair-work," and another and bitterer hatred, "foul-work"?

2. Then wise work is Useful. No man minds, or ought to mind, its being hard, if only it comes to something; but when it is hard and comes to nothing, when all our bees' business turns to spiders', and for honey-comb we have only resultant cobweb, blown away by the next breeze, that is the cruel thing for the worker. Yet do we ever ask ourselves, personally or even nationally, whether our work is coming to anything or not?

3. Then wise work is cheerful, as a child's work is. Everybody in this room has been taught to pray daily, "Thy Kingdom come." Now if we hear a man swearing in the streets

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