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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
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IN THIS WORLD, MAN
MUST BE AN ANVIL OR
A HAMMER
Willie Dobbs, ’31
One clay I passed a blacksmith shop and, at
tracted by a child’s questioning voice inside, I
stopped to hear the conversation between the
child and the blacksmith. She asked him about
the tools with which he was working, and he
carefully explained that one was a hammer, an
instrument which was very valuable to him be
cause it was powerful and with it he could beat
iron into many and varied shapes. The anvil,
he told her, was of equal importance, for it was
an iron block on which pieces of metal were laid
for the purpose of being hammered.
And so in the work-shop of life hammers
and anvils are people; the stronger person who
has power of leadership, ability to get to the
top and initiative in management, is the ham
mer while the anvil represents that kind of man
who is broad-shouldered enough to bear when it
comes his turn, who is willing to pledge himself
to facilitate the work of the hammer and who
makes possible in many ways the success of
other men and of great enterprises. It’s the man
behind who really “makes the man ahead.”
The task of a man is to fit himself to play
the role of either tool. Oft times he is an anvil
for life, but many times he serves in both
capacities. The give-and-take attitude is the one
to be desired in this world of ever-changing
economic status; and it is only the man of this
nature who will win out and be able to survive.
Too often do we as students in school look
into the future and see pictures of ourselves
only as the hammers, the strikers, and the doers
of great things. Indeed we should have such
high ideas and unlimited ambitions, but at the
same time we must prepare ourselves to be good
anvils and to appreciate the value of persons
who serve as anvils, for surely there will be
many of both kinds of tools to carry on the
world’s work. Will we be prepared and willing
to be either the hammer or the anvil, which
ever is needed most?
Let us remember that this is the age in which
teamwork is essential to the success of all busi
ness and to life. The hammer’s stroke is of no
avail without the solid, firm base of the anvil;
and the anvil cannot respond, cannot bear—
unless it is struck upon by the hammer. May
we as we go through life keep in mind this
thought which is so beautifully expressed by
Edwin Markham:
For all your days prepare, ,
And meet them ever alike :
When you are the anvil, bear—
When you are the hammer, strike.
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STUDENT COOPERATION
IN CAMPUS GOVERNMENT
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When students have a part in controlling
themselves they are being trained for the man
agement of affairs in public life. Student co
operation in Campus Government would free the
faculty of a lot of responsibilities that take up
time which they could use for better purposes.
Students understand themselves and know their
needs; then, if they are allowed to participate
in the making of rules, they feel more responsi
bility about the keeping of them.
The best results can come out of Student
Cooperation when the students themselves are
cognizant of situations that arise. They must
study, understand and consciously develop the
group spirit and a sense of fairness. They must
understand the meaning of freedom which is
wrongly understood by many students.
To have merely a floating opinion without a
definite plan as to the functioning of the opin
ion does not make for student cooperation in
campus government. Just as our national gov
ernment is run by representatives chosen to do
the will of the people, so must college represen
tatives be chosen from the student body for the
student body. These representatives are not
chosen as a police force, but are the choice of
the student body they are representing. It is the
student’s fault if this body which is officially
known as the student council does not function.
Usually students have a wrong idea of the duty
of the student council. It is not a mere dis
ciplining committee but a group of students that
are alert and ready to seek for anything that
would be of aid in developing a broader group
spirit a family spirit. The Council is a body
that must, with a certain dignity and responsi
bility, be backed up by the loyalty, goodwill and
high standards of honor of the student body.
BONING EARLY
Ermatine Hill, ’31
Annie: Are you going to use your alarm clock
tonight ?
Helen: No, I have a light-cut tonight.
Annie: 1 hen lend it to me, please.
Helen: \\ hat time do you want it to alarm.
Annie: At two o’clock.
Alice: I was just coming to borrow that clock.
What time are you going to get up, Annie?
Annie: At two o’clock.
Alice: Then please waken me.
Many other girls., (They have also come to
borrow the clock). Me, too. Me, too.
Annie: What are each of you going to study?
One girl: French and Latin.
Another: English.
Alice: You pray for me, Annie, and I’ll pray
for you.
(1 ing-a-ling-a-ling, a-ling, sounds the retiring
bell).
Annie: That’s the last bell. Good night.
(All is quiet. Hours pass).
(Ring-ng-ng goes the alarm clock).
Annie: O! oh. Two o’clock came too quickly.
If one could be an unseen visitor in any of
the college dormitories between 9:15 and 10:00
o'clock in the evenings during examination time,
one would be forced to listen to such conversa-
DIFFERENT HANDSHAKES
Magnolia R. Dixon, ’31
There are so many things in this complex
world of ours that claim our attention that such
minor things as handshakes, pass by in most
instances, unnoticed.
Society with its mores and taboos has, to a
certain extent, outlawed handshaking; hygiene
in setting forth its principles of sanitation, de
clares that handshaking transmits germs; peo
ple in various other walks of life say it takes
too much time and energy to shake hands, es
pecially, when time and energy mean almost life
or death in this age of industry and inven
tion.
Perhaps China is the only country able to re
but each of the above arguments. The Chinese
do not shake the person’s hand whom they are
meeting, but shake their own hands instead.
This saves time, because they may continue
walking while shaking their own hands; germs
are not transmitted because both of the hands
arG on the same body and what infects one like
wise infects the other hand; and, lastly, society
in China heartily approves of this custom.
I do not say that the Chinese have acted best
in their decision, because they are missing the
inspiration, sympathy, joy, and feeling of
brotherhood which are communicated from one
person to another in “good ole” handshakes.
Our hearts are wont to sing all day long,
sometimes, if at the beginning of that day some
one clasped our hand in a light, neither too long
nor too heavy grip, passing on with it, joy and
happiness. Again, many people being dis
heartened have taken hope and started again,
as a result of a handshake that gave inspira
tion. Many of our great leaders of today, and
of former days own that they are indebted to
such a handshake. Lastly, nothing could help
more than a long, firm handshake given to a
person in deep sorrow; it proves much more ef
fective than any other display of sympathy one
could offer.
Handshakes like facial expressions, portray
one’s inward feelings. It takes little to read
their meaning—only a little thought and atten
tion solves the problem. Perhaps even less
time is needed in bestowing the handshake than
we are inclined to think.
We have handed down to us—“It is the little
things that count” and although handshaking is
a little thing, in the end it may amount to a
great deal; it all depends upon what we put
into it.
tions as the above and would marvel at the
quietness in the corridors.
A person would be still more amused if she
should creep down the corridors at two o’clock
in the morning and silently peep into the rooms.
At that hour she would find in every room, at
some time during examinations, the occupants
awake and studying.
At any other time of the year girls can hardly
go to breakfast on time, but whatever it requires
to make them rise early that power examinations
seem to possess.
Came the Dawn
He—I’ve never seen such dreamy eyes.
She—You’ve never stayed so late before.