THE STUDENT MIND.

. APPY student days! Aren't they wonderful? And how sad we all
H are to leave them behind—but the student attitude towards life—
towards our work can go with us out of school—in fact, must go with us

if we would keep truly alive.

Degrees and diplomas only assert that certain individuals have earned
the right to become "life students" of particular subjects.

In the School of Art, our particular subject is a giant in whose service
we need fear no "out-of-work-days." Compartively few ever pass the
kindergarten!

"In the striving we live," so philosophers tell us, and nature corroborates
with her immutable law, that fulfilment means death.

This is not such a depressing thought as it may at first appear, because,
from the ashes of this death springs a new life—a new striving.

The withered leaf only falls from the tree when the sticky little baby leaf ae
is ready to be born—as we complete one piece of work, the idea for our
next takes form.

So the eternal striving goes on, the everlasting springtime that uses all
other seasons for repair and continuance in its dynamic movement.

May we remain hungry in quest—attacking the day's problems—in school
and out of it—with the interest and wonder of "The Student Mind.”

—G. W. MELVIN.

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