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CAMPUS MIRROR
THE CAMPUS MIRROR
l he Students' Own Publication
"Service in Unity”
THE CAMPUS MIRROR STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Alma Stone
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Vol. XVI January. 1940 No. 4
Editorial
Habits are powerful taskmasters. They
start simply, as single deliberate actions,
then grow and grow until they become
unconscious patterns of behavior. The
classic example of the unconsciousness
of habit is that of the centipede who
got along fairly well until someone asked
him how he was able to manage his nu
merous appendages so well; when the
mechanics of movement were brought to
his attention again, they appeared so
complicated that the poor myriapod
could only lie in a ditch, considering how
to run. It has been said that the forma
tion of as many habits as possible is val
uable because it leaves the mind free
for more important things. It would take
up a considerable amount of time if one
had to decide every day which shoe to
put on first, for instance, or whether the
bacon or the cereal should precede the
other.
Less mechanical habits that are the
result of planning are the ones that save
time and energy. The individual who has
a carefully planned day gets much more
done than does the person who has to
debate each move. The difficulty about
forming good babits is that there is often
an undesirable one to be broken before
the new r one becomes a part of behavior.
Football coaches usually prefer men who
w'ere not stars in high school because
they have often developed habits different
from the ones the coach wants developed
in the men under his guidance. Habit
formation is a steady, relentless task.
Everv step backward makes the next
forward step twice as far away. There
must be a purpose in view also, a goal
worth striving for. or the effort is useless
and will be discontinued long before the
result is achieved.
The beginning of a new year is usually
considered the time to take stock of one s
habits and decide which ones are unde
sirable and which ones are worth devel
oping. Then resolutions are made con
cerning these decisions, often, however,
with the acknowledgment that they are
sure to be broken before January has
passed into history. When one feels the
need of replacing an old habit with a
better one, one needn't wait until the new
year to start work on it. As Mrs. Ernes
tine Milner has said, “If you don't like
what you are. change immediately. " If
you keep putting off the start of a new
type of activity you will end your life
with the same faults you have now. For
what you are to be you are now becom
ing. You build upon what you are, and
you are tlie sum total of your habits
and ideals.
“Sow a thought and you reap an action;
Sow an action and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit and you reap a character;
Sow a character and you reap a
destiny.”
Leisure — How Do We
Spend It?
N. R. Harmon
The word “leisure” has several mean
ings, but the most common one is free
time—the time when one is free from
engagement or occupation.
On the college campus, leisure is
thought of as the time when one is free
from his studies and extra-curricular ac
tivities. This free time is very important.
How do we spend it?
Do we spend our time sitting around
gossiping about our neighbors, reading
books from which we gain nothing bene
ficial. or are we just idle?
Are w t c consciously or unconsciously
doing or saying something that will hurt
us or our fellowmen?
In our free time, how easily could
we read books that would be of some
benefit to us and help us build character,
instead of reading other books.
How easily could we speak kind words
about our neighbors instead of unkind
words.
How easy it could be for us to make
at least some one happy each day and
to cheer some weary traveler.
There are hundreds of things that
could be named like these. Let us' pause
for a moment and think deeply. How
do we spend our leisure?
Living in Rome as The
Romans Do
Isoi.yn Comer, '41
When one has returned to bis original
habitat from a change of environment
or when one is about to change his en
vironment and another person remarks
La>t month the Campus Mirror re
ported that Miss Geter was the bride of
Mr. W. D. Thomas. His name should
have read “Mr. W. C. Thomas.”
Pre-Xmas V Meeting
June Strong, ’43
The happy informality of the pre-Xmas
“Y” meeting held in Morehouse North.
Sunday, December 17, 1939, will be re
membered by the congenial group that
assembled. The meeting was* well attend
ed for there had l>een hints of delights
in store. The first greeting was a very
definite feeling of informality that was
exhibited by all. who were chatting
pleasantly in the most neighborly fash
ion. At a seemingly unconscious signal
from Ollie Franklin the assembly broke
into song with such gusto and spirit as
to transform the scene to that of the
manger, and all felt keenly the awe and
wonder of the birth. Impetuously and
spontaneously chimes and jingles were
suddenly being sung by all. The members
of the “Y” and of the faculty sat further
back into their deep chairs and sighed
another sigh of contentment as the guest
speaker, Mr. Owen Dodson, leisurely be
gan reading an Xmas poem entitled
Just My Size. The manner of presenta
tion and delivery was so effective that at
the close a full minute of silence ensued
which was broken only by the happy
thought of refreshments. A few minutes
of social niceties were exchanged be
tween tasty morsels of the delightful re
past. Echoes of “Merry Xmas” rang far
into the campus, representing the feeling
and desire of the “Y” members.
We are looking forward to the Inter
national Banquet to be given by tbe “Y”
sometime in February.
that he has acquired or lost certain hab
its or mannerisms, he feels perfectly sat
isfied in saying that he must “live in
Rome as the Romans do.”
Must he? Well, it all depends. Some
things must be adjusted to the change.
If the “Romans” are living wholesome
lives, then one may feel perfectly safe
in living as they do. But, if he finds they
are not living morally, spiritually, and
intellectually wholesome lives, should he
live as they do?
One must make his own convictions
and he must have faith in them. The
true test comes not in living as the
Romans do. if one has a wholesome con
viction that is not in keeping with the
act. but in sticking to his own convic
tion. If one can stick conscientiously to
his own convictions, he will, perhaps, all
unconsciously, influence another to stick
to bis own convictions or create a strong-
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