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Show HELEN WILSON J. WILLARD MARRIOTT JOSEPHINE RHEES Editor Business Manager Editor The Literary Journal THE WEBER LITERARY JOURNAL, the medium of literary expression in the school has been used very successfully. It has published the best poems, stories and essays of the students, and in doing so has uncovered some truly gifted writers. Students have put forth their best efforts in order to have an article in the Journal. This effort, though not always winning for them a place in the magazine, has been beneficial in developing their talent in writing and in giving incentive to literary work. We feel very proud that the students have been able to maintain this publication with their original contributions. MADGE CAMPBELL EDWIN WOOLLEY HAROLD FARLEY Ass't Editor Editor Ass't Editor The Weber Herald THE WEBER HERALD has had plenty of life and has ranked high as a journalistic venture. A conscientious endeavor has been put forth to make the Herald represent both the college and the high school. A review of a number of issues showed that this aim had been accomplished. Those who have worked for the Herald this year can truthfully say that they have gained some valuable experience and training. Perhaps some member of the staff has discovered his life work through being associated with the paper. If so, the Weber Herald has amply done its part, for the staff as well as for the Student Body. The Value of an Education BY LAURA ECCLES ROMNEY WHAT IS EDUCATION ? William Hawley Smith in his definition says, "Education that is worthy the name tends to bring the individual to the best there is in himself, physically, mentally, morally and spiritually." Are we striving to educate ourselves with such a thought in mind? Preparing ourselves to enjoy the fullness of life? Sometimes the answer seems in the negative, for a popular slogan, "Learn a trade, and learn to do it efficiently," assumes that there is no need of knowing anything except how to accumulate material things. Another substitute for real education is what Mr. Samuel Gompers boasts of: the education he received in the London streets and shops-education by human contact. Stevenson also strikes the same note when he tells us, "If a lad does not learn in the streets he has no faculty for learning." Much, we grant, can be learned through such contact and through learning a trade; but if a person's education has gone no further than this, there must always be something lacking. Some latent power for service has probably remained unfound and, surely,much potential power of appreciation. A Chicago acquaintance of Elizabeth Harrison, whom she chanced to meet while in the Dresden Art Gallery, asked, "Isn't it a bore to have to go through these picture galleries? Don't you get awfully tired of them?" Then added, "I suppose we all have to do it, but it is stupid work." He had accumulated a vast fortune; and now when he wanted to enjoy it, he didn't know how. Had he stopped long enough to glean a little knowledge of art and literature, those few odd hours in the Dresden Art Gallery might have been turned from a "Boredom to a pilgrimage of pleasure." I have in mind a Scotchman who rose to great wealth and power in his community. He had received his education in the streets by human contact. The only book he really seemed to cherish was the one containing the poems of Robert Burns. He had been taught, as all Scotchmen are, to see the beauty in the lines of their peasant poet, and with "Auld Lang Syne," "Hieland MarY,"A Mountain Daisy," or the "Banks O' Doon," he could forget, for a while, the busy practical world. Had he been taught, he might have loved the works of Shelly, Keats, Byron, Hawthorn, Lowell, and many others; a whole world of beauty and imagination might have been opened to him. But this is typical of our American business man today. His education stops short just where he most needs it. He has no "inner resources" knowing only the material things. Edward Bok realized this when, at an early age, he was compelled to leave school to earn a livelihood. He wanted the broader education that was not available from daily contact with the business world. So he read the lives of the great men of that day, he read their writings, and then sought opportunities to call on them, feeling that every successful man could give a boy something towards that education for which he was so hungry. Today he has retired from active business, "to play" he tells us. How full and rich that play must be for him who believes that life is something more than two things: "The making of money" and "The accumulation of material power." Lincoln is our finest example of a self-educated man. But much of the education which enabled him to bring tears from a motionless throng, with words that will live forever, which enabled him to do the greatest service for humanity of any man of the nineteenth century, he did not get while splitting rails or passing goods over a counter. Through his books he gained part of that great sympathy for humanity. |