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Voi.. XIX February, 1943 No. 5
On Getting Things Done
Gwendolyn Harrison, ’44
Someone lias said that the man who never
made a mistake never made anything. How
many people there are who are ready to
admit defeat after only one unsuccessful
trial. “1 can't . . .” says the child with
finality, meaning that his first attempt has
been a failure. Then off he goes to some
new venture in which he hopes to be more
successful. The adult who shifts from one
business to another with no visible success
in any is showing signs of this same ten
dency.
Surely the great inventions of the world
did not spring full-grown from the fertile
minds of their creators. Edison, Whitney,
and Marconi spent long hours working over
models which proved to be defective before
their perfected inventions emerged. Many
canvasses have been ruined, and many lines
rewritten in order that we might have the
great works of literature and art that have
come down to us through the centuries. A
second trial cannot hurt anyone, and it is
worth whatever effort it takes if it has fruit
ful results. Do not let your first mistake be
your last one. Keep on trying until some
ultimate goal is reached.
A job done well requires long hours of
constant labor. Who is the greater the
man who wrote a hundred fairly good plays
in his lifetime, or the man who wrote thirty
excellent ones? The world is in need of
individuals who can do things well, not in
dividuals who do jobs poorly. A manufac
turer lures the man who can turn out more
work in an hour, but only if his work is of
high quality. There is no advantage in being
able to produce large quantities of a defec
tive or worthless commodity.
But it is not enough merely to do a job
well; it must be done to the best of one’s
ability. It is no new idea that more should
be expected from the more able man than
from the less able one. Just as we expect
A Message from Henry
Morgenthau, Jr.
In a message sent by Henry Morgenthau,
Jr., the Secretary of the Treasury of the
l nited States, to the students in the women’s
colleges of America, the important role that
young college women can play in the total
war effort has been clearly defined. Mr.
Morgenthau points out that every young
woman student can help immeasurably by
buying war bonds and stamps to the limit of
her ability. He writes:
“Fundamentally, this is a young man’s
war. But in many important ways this is
also a young woman’s war:—young women
in uniform and young women in overalls;
young women in field and factory, in office
and hospital.
You as young college women have a defi
nite part to play in this crisis. For even in
the classroom, today’s Total War is not
merely academic. It is actual.
Young women students, everywhere, are
keenly aware of the facts of the war; they
must also be alert to the way in which those
facts affect them as women and as students.
They must recognize the unpleasant fact
that a Totalitarian triumph would destroy
their very freedom to attend the college of
their choice.
They have a tremendous stake in the war;
for if we were to lose it, they would lose
their future, and youth deeply deserves a
future. They also have a service to perform
and they are performing it with their char
acteristic enthusiasm and determination. I
know that, for my own daughter, a college
sophomore, tells me of the many war serv
ices her classmates are rendering.
One thing you can all do is to huy War
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a fifth grade child to work more difficult arith
metic problems than can a first grade child,
so society expects its more gifted individuals
to contribute to the country’s welfare to the
limit of their capacities. History would have
recorded no great men if there had not been
those who were willing to work harder than
their more complacent or less gifted asso
ciates.
In our present economic system, it is es
sential to be able to do a job better than
someone else does it. Competition is the
most outstanding factor of contemporary eco
nomics. The requirement of competitive
examinations for all civil service positions
is illustrative of this demand.
This is the great challenge to the college
student, to be willing to try again after hav
ing made one mistake; to do well any task
that he might undertake; to work to the
limit of his capacities at all times. College
is a preparation for life, and any attitudes
acquired in college will probably continue
after college is ended. Now before it is too
late, adopt these attitudes toward work, and
stick to them throughout life.
The Glory of War
The glory of war lies not in the lives of
marching men or in the stirring music that
sets our pulses heating.
The glory of war lies not in the clash of
arms, in the screaming rush downward of the
bombing plane, or in the silvery streak of
the torpedo darting straight to its goal.
The glory of war lies not in battles won
in the subjugation of the conquered, in the
final conquest of the aggressor. It lies not
in the death sentence of the tyrant.
The glory of war lies not in its destruction
but in its construction.
Such glory as war may have lies in the
lessons of war — in the driving home of the
copy book maxims that “for what we take we
must pay,” that “if we do not work we die,”
that “A stitch in time saves nine.”
The real glory of war lies in its ability to
separate the chaff from the wheat. The sacri
fice it entails is like a clear white light upon
our lives, pointing out what is essential to us.
The real glory of war lies in its cohesion,
its ability to make men live together — to
forget for the moment prejudice, hatred, sus
picion, and misunderstanding — to fight for
a common cause. It teaches men of different
faiths and backgrounds to know one an
other— and where there is understanding,
there is no hate.
The only glory of war lies in the lessons
that we learn. War shows men what they
really can do. It spurs them on as personal
ambition never could. They acquire new
sk ills, new talents, new resources in them
selves— which they will not forget in time
of peace.
Exhibit of English Prints
Opens At Atlanta
University
An exhibition of English sporting prints
described as "Hunters, Horses, Hounds,”
opened Thursday, January 21, 1943, in the
foyer of the Atlanta University Library. The
exhibit was loaned by the Circuit Case Ex
tension Cooperative and circulated by tbe
American Federation of Arts. It closed Feb
ruary 2.
At the time these prints were made, the
aim of the artists was to record incidents and
portraits which is the purpose of news pho
tographers today. Although many of the
prints are untrue to nature, there is an air
of vigorous life about them which too often
is lacking in modern compositions of the
same type.
Four of the prints included were “The
Sporting Bishop by Aiken; Charles Hunt's
I he Start, “Double Brook," and “The
Earth Stopped," lithographs colored by hand.
Aiken’s “Snob Is Beat is an etching and
aquatint, and “Vale of Aylesbury Steeple
Chase’ by Charles Hunt also is an aquatint.
These old sporting prints are still within
reach of collectors of modest means.