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116 THE ATHENAEUM THE NECESSITY OF THOROUGHNESS IN OUR SCHOOL CAREER By F. P. Payne, ’25. T HIS is an age which demands thorougness. From the most high ly developed executive office to the smallest cattle ranch the call for thoroughness comes. Industrial America, and along with it the entire civilized world, sends up this unceasing demand. It thus becomes imperative that we, as college men and women, if we would keep abreast the times, prepare ourselves thoroughly while we are matriculated in the various colleges and universities. Lay well the foundations for an intellectual superstructure and build well that structure thereupon. No sadder mistake can be made than that of an individual who satisfies himself with “just getting by.” He is placing a false sup port in the scaffold which shall some day cause his downfall. He overlooks and discards the laws of habit. If the individual during the first eighteen or twenty years of his life lives his years based upon “getting by,” it is inevitable that this principle become a part of him and out in the problems of life he will seek to cheat society as he cheated himself. It is during the period of development that we must form those desirable traits which will guide us through life- The man who gets eighty-five percent of his lessons is more likely to get eighty-five percent of life’s principles than the man who is a habitual sixty or seventy percent man. With thoroughness goes not only more knowledge but also cer tain other concomitant goods. An individual to be thorough must have self confidence. He must observe closely. He must possess a high power of concentration. He must be of a perservering type. He must be true to himself in addition to many other requisites which I shall not mention. The foregoing factors of thoroughness hold an important place in life problems. How necessary it then becomes that we make thoroughness an essential factor in our school career. The dawn of a new day is upon us. The inefficient and poorly prepared are quietly sleeping upon their couches of self deception and unpreparedness. They shall sleep on for their day has passed. The orders of the day call for men and women thoroughly prepared in the various life work; persons whose foundations are not fake but solid. He who would answer the call must be fitted to meet the re quirements. Let us as college men and women make thorough our college careers. EDITOR’S NOTE—The article “ Ki! Ki! Ki! Team!” was with held from the last issue of the Athenaeum in order that we might ascertain the truth of certain assertions made therein. This done and the statement found to have basis in fact, we welcome a reply through the columns of this publication, as a controversial note has been sounded.