Never Too Old to Learn SOME people are never too old to learn. While there are blase youngsters who know so much they are hopeless and self satisfied adults who feel that life holds nothing new in the way of enlightenment, it is refreshing to note that a few ladies of mature years and minds are still adding to their stores of knowledge. Press dispatches from Columbus, Ohio, tell of the graduation from high school of Mrs. Catherine Sheets at the age of 73 years. Although listed as the oldest woman ever given a high school diploma, she is not content to rest on laurels won. Next year she expects to enroll as a freshman in the state university. Eventually she wants to teach mathematics. Another dispatch gives an account of Mrs. Lillian H. Gist, who will graduate from Claremont college, in California, on the 8th of the present month, at the age of four score years. She announces the intention of working for further academic honors. There is something as inspiring as unusual in these examples of a lifelong pursuit of education. To grow old gracefully and graciously, to retain interest in intellectual treasures and enthusiasm in the quest for knowledge, shows an appreciation of life and opportunity that ought to be cultivated. There is no excuse for ignorance in a land where age can utilize to advantage such opportunities for acquiring education. Mental vigor, more than physical activity, enhances the personal charm of the aging. When minds are clear and stored with useful information, encroachments of decrepitude are less felt and less noticed. Joline gave the first account of the lymphatics University of Giessen, Germany Founded in 1610. Medical teaching was purely theoretical for a long period here as in other schools. A change to modern methods came in 1824. Willbrand lectured at Giessen on anatomy and physiology beginning in 1808. Giessens first clinic was a birth clinic started in 1814. Salt Lake City, Utah, Wednesday Morning, January 1, 1936. Happy New Year to Everybody DURING the lifetime of Jesus Christ the poet, Ovid, banished from Rome by Augustus, wrote that nothing is swifter than the years. Of course, that was many centuries before the steamship, the railway train, the automobile and the airplane, but, were he still living, Ovid might repeat that axiom. There is nothing that finite intelligence can compare with the flight of time. Every measurement is based on its infinitesimal units. The distance that light or sound, or any mechanical device, may travel is estimated by a table of time. No other measurement applies to duration. Time passes steadily, swiftly, to return no more. With each second a hope, a thought, a joy, a justification, an opportunity, drops into the mysterious abyss of eternity, never to be recalled. At the beginning of a year, when the calendar assures us that we have safely finished a regular period of probation, and an extension has been granted for another 12 months or so much thereof as may be necessary to cover the unwritten lease of existence, it is a custom among superstitious people to make high resolves and solemn vows, based on habits and errors, or hopes and aspirations. An ancient proverb of the Japanese runs as follows: Make your plans for the year at its beginning correct your wife from the first day. Whether the obsolete aphorism in its entirety has survived the flood of modern ideas that has swept cobwebs from the island empire is not known to an absolute certainty, but the little warriors are always making plans. To correct a wife from the first day is probably an empty assumption of masculine authority and not really an incitement to domestic trouble. Were men to accept and apply it, the home might vanish and a race would probably perish from its accustomed planet. The past year has shown improvement over the preceding year. Business became more prosperous, scientific discoveries added to the store of human knowledge, ingenuity and courage combined to set new marks in mans achievements, national credit has survived dire predictions of political pessimists, many governments have taken decided stands against warfare and millions are emerging from the storm cellars of economic depresson. With another year before us, our eyes upon the coming of the glory of the dawn, our hopes inspiring confidence and leading to renewed prosperity, our patriotism unshaken by alien influences and our feet firmly planted on the constitution and its bill of rights, we may resolve with Lincoln that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.