The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-09-24

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bad habits. You know Il Is easier
to kill a wolf than to put a collar
on his neckl
The nth principle Is that tempta-
tion must be avoided. That was
the teaching Of Christ and IL is
under this head that some OF our
most peculiar rules come in. Here
IRE the proprieties Of Conduct We
say that young men and young wo-
men must not meet TO visit in any
private place. Now, that is not "A
SANDER upon our young people. A
great many Of our young people
night meet 10 visit in private places
and il would be innocent and all
right. But IL would be a liability =.
II would be TO some q temptation.
I II II were permitted as il is in some
/ places, it would be certain that in
the course Of year, a great deal
Of evil would happen. And so in
stead Of saying there shall not be
immortality, we say there shall not
be the conditions in which there
would be temptation. We will fight
against the liability and not have to
fight against the thing itself
And so, with our rule against
night prowling. That is nothing
against our young men. Most Of the
young men are as good by night as
by day, but after all, the greater por-
tion Of sin is done in the night. |
have seen innocent men in our hos
pitfalls made diseased by the use Of
towels in our dormitories that had
been infected by boys who had been
of at night to places Of infamy. Now,
that doesn't happen often, but we
don't want il to happen at all, and
so we arrange to avoid il.
Here's the matter Of our forbid
ding students to enter eating houses. |
There may be good eating houses
Boone Tavern is a good eating house
for one, hut we have found that .
when students flock to these eat 4
ing houses evils are sure to follow.
One of the greatest causes Of ILL
health is eating between meals. But
besides that, at these eating houses
there are always the liabilities OF ex-
travagance and bad company. We
cannot discriminate, and so we are
obliged to say for the sake Of safety,
keep away from these sinister Ii
abilities We provide good food. We
have an ice plant and a dairy and all
ihese things. We propose to pro-
vide amusement and board for our
students just as much as we provide
'lasS instruction.
Kill Cubs and You Will not Have to
Kill wolvesl
Now. Students, what is the prin-
'iple Of all this? | had brother I
who was once a farmer in Minnesota,
md he told me about a neighbor
who came in and told him what he
lad been doing that day. He said ,
I have been doing a good piece OF ,
york, but something I hated TO do. 4
visited three wolves dens and 1
Tiled the cubs. They are such in Il
lOcent little things and look like I
.ittens! | hated TO kill them!" Now,
n prohibiting amusements outside
he college, and eating houses out! I,
ide the college, and in prohibiting
light powling. we are killing cubs.
innocent little things that look
Ike kittens" but If they grew up
hey would be wolves @
Another principle we believe in is v
hat hardship is a good teacher. q
ehOld the men who have come I'D :
lru hardship Begin with Benja- :
lin Franklin, Horace Greeley, and !,
braham Lincoln! When a boy leav- q
Berea, as some did last week, be- 4
luse he can not get room elegant q
nough for him, he does not care
luch for education. Such are not S
ne people OF character and promise
nat Berea cares to educated =
But in the last place, seventh, we
elieve that hardship is easy-easy
II any great cause. have been a
'ading today of the sacrifices the Il
eople are making in Paris for their CT
luse, and other sacrifices people IL
&c making in England for their =
luse; and they do il gladly.
Now, here at Berea we have the "
irdship OF labor. Don't be sorry
lat you have TO work. You have =.
e hardship of economy; don't be :"
try that you have to save. We .,
I'VE the hardship OF careful care "
I'd planning Of time, careful guard =,
& OF conditions Of good health. We =, ~
mot any OF us afford TO be sick.
)nt be sorry that you have n,