The Washington times., 1920-08-05
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Always in School

There different ways of viewing the universe Some
take it workshop. others playground, still Others
q preparation for future existence
But the best way to consider it is school, where
there endless interesting things to learn and all the
time from the cradle to the grave in which to study.
This of course implies that you love the pursuit of
knowledge For there also two ways of viewing study
one as preparation for something that H hard task
1t is necessary to perform in order to attain some desired
end and the other as delight in itself the most enter
tanning of all pastimes.
From the first point of view study is work; from the
second, it is play.
And no sport fun vocation or avocation equal the
game of learning things.
The world, and all that therein is, made for stu
dents for is it crammed with toohsome secrets veined
with beautiful laws adjusted in wondrous relations and
arranged with most mathematical nicely under an appear
of seeming confusion?
Is not the whole affair delightful puzzle?
Happy the people that awake every morning to
open the of Nature and learn lesson from
its exhaustless pages.
Are YOU bored weary and tired of the sameness of
days? Enroll student Mark out some course OF study
Begin that of Seeker After Knowledge which shall
last you until DEATH and which, of all careers is most
likely to continue on through eternity.
Consider the aluring doors open to you.
There the stars Do you know them? Are you
familiar with the consultations? Have you learned their
their paths their seasons Do you know the story
of the Moon and Arcurus the wandengs OF Venus the
mystery of nebuae and all the enchanting harmony that
the may dance Of those pecks of light those vast
and distant worlds that adorn the night sky?
Do you the Romance of the Rocks? Has the fasci
nation of Geology gpped you? Have you followed
the laws quartz and crystal and marked the vestges OF
by-gone eras stamped in the strata of the earth?
And how about Botany? Are you friend OF trees,
knowing them by and their curious knshps tastes
and habts Do you know the numerical rules for petals
leaves branches? Are you acquainted with the shrubs
flowers and weeds of your neghborhood? Wouldn't it add
your joy of living it, in every walk, you met familiar
faces among the green things growing?
And the Birds their periodic migrations their coored
coats their varied calls their homesdo you know Them
And the Insects, the myriad flying and creeping lives
abounding all about you? And Microscopic things cells,
and microbes wondrous telescope life? And the inviting
fields Physics and Chemistry do they not appeal to you
Then there mathematics Oldest of exact sciences and
literature and the languages and ethnoogy and history
Just to learn! The healthy mind wants to learn, even
as the normal body wants to eat.
And as bodies placed planet where there is
plenty of fish, flesh, fowl grains, and fruit for their sus
tenance and joyance, minds set in a world
crowded with alurng laws relations facts marvels and
paradoxes enough feed them forever and from the
tree of knowledge.
Begin and cure your soul!
Learn something, every day!
Go to school again. and renew your youth!
Always in school!