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THE ATHENAEUM 43 may think they are the best now, but there is always room for im provement. The three standards which 1 wish to discuss are moral, physical, and religious standards. , ,• Tt The moral standard of today is very much below the line. It for the students to raise it to the level where it can not and will not be questioned. We are living in a new and modern generation where the strict puritanical laws of the past are almost forgotten In our attempt to understand ourselves better it has become a code to see ourselves as others see us; trying to weigh our capacities and ou limitations as though we were never concerned in it; trying to mate what our environments offer to our development. The physical standard is receiving a great deal of emphasis, especially in our schools, Y. W. C. A., Y. M. C. A, and similar institu tions. The people have at last realized that to have a life that is ap- py and worthwhile to someone else, we must have health. It has been well said that “health is the keynote to happiness.’ There was a time when man’s thought affected only themselves or aAinu ted num^ ber That time has passed; no man is living to himself. A message can* be passed around the world in ten minutes. A lec ure can be broadcasted to Canada, Cuba, and all parts of the United States. What has been done for the general health ox the communrt)^ It is true that there are a great number of improvements, but do y horoughly reach the lasses? The lack of decent recrea,tons and the unsanitary condition of many homes is surprising. It is for the studen^to carry to these people instructions for improving health eonditmns standard is perhaps more neglected than any; and not intentionally so but on account of the little interest put into it There are too few young men going into the ministry. Their reason are threefold: 1 The pay is insufficient. 2 They are too largely governed by older men. 3 The repulsive attitude some girls take toward the min istry So noble a cause should not be forced to suffer for such groundless reasons. The day is fast approaching when such objec tion will be cast aside, and educated young men will say with the poet: “Take all my selfishness from me, Open my eyes that I may see That e’en what 1 do for thee, Must needs be done for others.” THANKSGIVING 4 UTUMN has kissed the leaves and painted them in a myriad of brilliant hues and now after the touch of the first frosts they have fallen, and crackle under foot as one trudges o’er them. Great round yellow pumpkins, once knotty and green, hme themselves among rows of cornstalks, where not many days before were waving fields