Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-09
THE MAN WHO TALKS

use it merely in relation to color, be- cause the present season is the time of flowers, and color is the one thing in which the flowers love to riot, Is there that surpasses the red rambler for color when it has for a background a large white surface as the side uf a house? If a painter could exactly re- produce such vividness of color on his canvas we should call it overdrawn. Or if he should give us a sunset just as it is we would pronounce it extfavagant. If there IS in us an innate love of the beautiful much enjoyment may be deriv- ed from the vast world of color that greets us at every turn as the month of June closes We need not travel afar to see the beautiful. Tae sJarain des Plantes" is in our neighbSF'n garden 1t may be in ours also.
 Beauty is revealed to as through 3 multitude of phases. Whsa beauty ia brought to our notice through the eaiseled form we call 1t sculpture; when in the form of building we cali 1t architecture when it appeals to us through the chan nels of sound we call it music but when it comes to our notice in the shape of right living we call it the beauty of holiness" It is just as prener te speak of beautiful lives as beautiful roses. Whatever the form in which beauty is presented to the senses 1t always areua- es the same sensations. I aava spoken of the beautiful impression made by the red rambler on a background of white. Let us transfer those terms to the moral world. White stands for purity of living, red for bravery, patriotism and hereism. How many boys America sent into the World war, from our Lest homes clean, straightforward, manly fellows who earn T 1,xf,- 1Iz1e. ENr faa doing brave valorous deeds And how many did the same for whom there were no medals! The red rambler &l it's background of white is more in evidence than we think.
 It doesn't require unusual powers ef penetration, or rare sagacity to learn lessons from the weeds. Whatever be the variety you deal with, they always reveal the lack of culture, no matter what interpretation you put upon that term Weeds show their lack of culture in that they grow anywhere. at any time, and in any form. Paul does net plant nor Appolles WateF9, but the devil givea the increase" all the same. Weeds al so snow their lack of culture in their bad manners in persisting in growing while the poor husbandman attends a cell lege commencement They have no re- .spect whatever for the academic atmos- pheFe. They do not suspend drinking from the soil while the owner of the field drinks once again at tie university fount and at other places during the class re- union. Weeds may lack culture nut they are not wanting in penetration. In this respect they are superioA to the average man who yields the beA Cayer them up so as to shut out thu lfght of day completely and in a few Nays Taey viii "bob up serenely' very much refresh ed by the cultivatienS yoW nave given them. The weed ought to be adopted as the symbol of immortslitYm
 It is reported that cStain class re- union in one of our colleges last week, one member who had gone through more than is usual for poor mertals remarked that this IS probably the last college re- union I shall ever attend. The deeter tells me that my Kidneys" At this point the pessimist was interrupted by classmate who exclaimed: Flank cut out the sobs '" This could hardly be called Addisonian English. hut it wal expressive speech. and brought sigh of relief to those who had listened patient | ly to long recital of woes May wt not learn an important lesson from this | and similar ca ses? What early use i. there in making everybody about you un. comfortable by making capital out o i voUr wees? Why invite all your friend: to Gather at the RiveFt before the riv CT Is clearly in sight? You are not tn, | beat nov and then. Other paeple hay, biz joints that delisAt in Thaumatit 1 twinges. Why not '1earn to burn youl own smokes" Nebody's liver or stemacl always reminds him of the Kingdom O God
 ] This week my thought seems to fue
 tuate between colleges and weeds probably because I have had a rnemor able experience with both After on. has been an alumnus for good man, years ana goes back to his class reunions he cannot help noting the greater empha
 sis that is put on athletics An inter collegiate baseball game is marks,
 feature of even a centennial celebration
 That a large place should be given to tn development of the physical is perfectl
 consistent with the trend of our modet1 life. But our colleges have a na'nfu hahit of forgetting the indiv;dua
 student who brings aenoT upon them b his skill and prewess Years ago on fellow was stroke oarsman of vietori ous crew. In his examinations at tn elese of freshman year he utterly failed The faculty meFcilessly sent him home t tend the pigs on his fathers farm. HI
 fellow students did not carry aim q tEeir shoulders to the railway station. l
 leads one to infer that student who wi
 use the last atom of his strength [
 bring athletic glory in his college is plumb idiot. As in the earlier days S
 now the s1out Of "crueifyn is not ia
 away from tha- of thosanna."
 The Anaerican college Is giving tr
 country ac large a very much needed ol
 iect lesson. The college and universit
 are the most cosmopolitan. and cons
 quently democratic. institutions in u
 world. One sees very little that is snol 1 bish among college students. If be
 enters an American university witk ti ''mi lord' air, the caste system is soc taken out of his own system. and he
 brought down to the earth where he b
 longs. If he attempts to make capit out of the supposed bluepess of his blet
 he will pass great many blue days du
 ing the period of adjustment Nowhe
 in all this wide world is the spirit of
 common brotherhood more clearly pr nounced than in the American college, was refreshing the other day to see a co . ored senior at Amherst step to the pia
 form and receive his diploma amid thu t ders of applause He was elea sttdlsht' many IelloW Wno nae uone h1 work as a student. In college a fellow
 gauged by his mental and moral wort
 The stranEest thing in America
 American weather. It was Mark Iva . who said of New England weather tn i've have enough of it. and te spar, The one word that ehaFacteFizes it bett
 than any other I know is t'iReeRg#ueut
 It is fckle. ineonstant freakish, centr . dietory and absolutely unreliable. Y ] can use almost any adjective that No t Webster has produced and nat
 far astray in anplying it te the weath
 To realize what 8 perfect someHsault t e weather can make in 24 hours. one nee