Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-18
Miss Florence Minis Promises
an Account of the Uni- 4
versity Preparatory SIS
School. 81
Dear Advertiser:


Dear Advertiser: -
1t seems to me that I have written
about everything in and around Ton: Ton:
kawa, except that which concerns nle
most, the University Preparatory
School. Yet, I suppose this is natural,
since they say that when a woman
writes letter she adds the most in:5s
portant, the reason for which she
writes the letter, at the end, or more
often still, makes postscript Of i.
That is inconsistent, but Consistency.
is the mark of small minds," SO yosl
may make your own deductions. : SIS
well remember when I first we.s.
away to college that I was shown tbge.
evening on entering the campus it'tte
administration building. / shivefga
and thought that here learning WIS
administered" in doses of fifty miiis
ute periods, even as medicine migks
be though not with such relentless.
regularity On the front of the builG3-
ing was a colonnade of imposing col.
umns and in the entrance huge CAM
vas, an interesting landscape, and ~
the auditorium sweet voiced organ
but these things were like mirages
that melted, even as I touched them.
In my Imagination I found the ashes
of their beauty at my feet, and in
my hands clammy Latin books am.
prickly math books. circumstances
alter cases." They was looking from
the outside in, and now 1 even hold
some of the reins myself This tinie,s
I am not being led, but am leading,.
and the same effort to push forward
is necessary as then, plus the pN 4.
sibility for the other person. y
Life is like climbing a mountain.
One goes round and round in a cifSle.
seemingly getting nowhere, but BY ocs.
easionally looking down he sees5Nhhe5
valley below with a broader visssn,
and the higher up he goes, the more more
exhilarating is the atmosphere, Eere
one has no taskmaste but his =. r
ner allegiance to the right, while.
there were printed booklets telling
Of innumerable "not to dos" 1t is
like a self-governed nation. More
thought is required on the part of
the citizens, but every day that they
live, they grow to higher plane of
enjoyment for their very knowledge.
If ignorance is bless, it is a colorless,
lifeless kind of bliss that does not
keep step with the forward march of
progress today.
/ prefer to be out learning and
working with the rest of the world,
keeping the common touch while
walking with kings.
If start out to write on given
subject, the chances are that will
quickly leave it for another, so some
day I shall write on the University
Preparatory School, having definitely
planned another subject to insure my
not using it.
I have heretofore heard of people
nicknamed, but never. a university.
On first coming to Oklahoma, I heard
the term o. U. used constantly, and
early displayed my ignorance, as 1
am in the habit of doing. / learned
that o. U. was the term applied to
the University of Oklahoma, even as
the University of Kansas is known
as X. U. How we do love to go to as
little mental effort as possible! Our
smaller school has the longer name,
as it is for o. U. that this institution
prepares it's students.
FLORENCE MINIS.
Tonkawa, Oklahoma.
January II, 1922.