News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-17

should lee made to keep his word if she
had any influence over Ler roommate.
II was perhaps a coincidence that the
president chose for his Friday talk that
very week the Sunject Of how best to
spend Sunday in college. Edward
afterward charged Freeda and one or
two other girls who felt as she did with
having been to the president and urged
him to speak on the subject. Freeda
d1d not deny that she nad talEed with,
the president on the matter, and the
very next day after her talk with her
brother; but she said she had not asked
him to take the subject for one of his
Friday talks. He had told her that for
some time he had been intending to do
so anyway.
The college listened With peculiar in
terpst that day. Probably more than
half of the entire student body was in
the habit of more or less Sunday study.
The president spoke briefly of several
good ways for a student to use the day,
and then went on to give his reasons
why Sunday study was not only unnec-
essary, bit absolutely harmful in the
long run:
"First.-First of all. you need one
whole day in the week for complete
change of programme. TO keep right
on studying seven days in a week is
contrary to Gods great law of change
and rest.
"Second.-If you are in the habit of
thinking that the Saturday study does
not remain as fresh with you as the
Sunday study, probably your method
of study, especially of memorizing, is
at fault. You need to memorize so as
to retain the lesson for longer period
than simply one day.
"Third.-The Sunday study is apt to
dull the mind instead of brighten It.
Experience seems to prove the truth Of
this statement The best students in
my university were the men who rest
ed on Sunday or at least did some work
in connection with the day that gave
them new ideas Of other things outside
of a regular college course. The col
lege student who is interested in moth
ing but the books and studies of his
college life will develop in small way
He needs to give the religious life a
chance at him. a full sweep unhindered
by the books that have held his atten-
ton during the week.
"Fourth.-In some way a change of
the weekday holiday from Saturday to
Monday would be desirable. | am
somewhat in favor of that plan, and in
some colleges where it is adopted the
results are excellent But whether
such change is ever made at Hope or
not the excuse that the student must
study on Sunday because Saturday is
his rightful play day does not hold
| good. 1t does not, because the stu
dents who manage to get their Monday
lessons without studying on Sunday
| prove my statement. If it was an abb
solute necessity to study Sunday for
any reason, then that necessity would
be seen in the failure of those students
who refuse to use Sunday for study.
Monday failures in the classroom do
not come from an absence of Sunday
study. They come from other causes.
"Fifth.-We are here in this college
for something in addition to the things
we can find in the textbooks. Sunday
comes to us for the purpose Of giving
us an opportunity to enrich our lives
with meditation and rest and service.
A college student will grow narrow
and selfish unless he does something
on Sunday that he does not do on other
| days. Teach q class somewhere in the
| church where you attend. Help some
| Christian cause that needs it. Use the
day for building up tired physical and
use the day, even a small part of it, to
study the college lessons. 1t is harm
ful to mind and body, and in the long
run it will leave you poorer in spirit
and in all those qualities that go to
make a full grown man and woman"
Edward was busy that afternoon
getting ready for the debate in the
evening, and he did not have time tG
see Freeda and comment on the presi'
dents talk or ask her what Miss Sc.
ton was going to do. He went up to
his room right after dinner and lay
down for half an hour. Then he went
over the whole debate carefully. He
went down town and carried his pa
pers and Immediately after supper
went to his room again, rested for
little while, dressed for the evening
and then spent the time until he was
expected at the chapel in rehearsing
his speech. He was not afraid of for.
getting it, and he thought he had nc
timidity before an audience. The only
thing that gave him any trouble was
the selection of the judges. Two OF
them were pronounced partsans in
politics. He knew enough about the
whole debate over the Philippine ques'
ton to feel afraid that his side of the
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