John B. Stetson Collegiate.
VERITAS."
Vol. II.
DeLAND, FLORIDA, MARCH, 1891.
No.
Issued monthly, by the students of John B. Stetson University.
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NELLIE M. DAY,
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Litfrary Editor.
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SOMEWHERE.
How can I cease to pray for thee? Somewhere
In God's great universe thou art to-day.
Can He not reach thee with His tender care?
Can He not hear me, when for thee I pray?
What matters it to Him who holds within
The hollow of His hands all worlds, all space,
That thou art done with earthly pain and sin?
Somewhere within His ken thou hast a place.
Somewhere thou livest ai.d hast need of Him;
Somewhere thy soul sees higher heights to climb,
And somewhere still there may be valleys dim
That thou must pass to reach the hills sublime.
Then all the more because thou canst not hear
Poor human words of blessing, will I pray;
O, true, brave heart, God bless thee, whereso'er
In His great universe thou art to day!
—Selected.
THE VALUE OF TIME,
--TL.
C, I FEW, if any, realize how fleeting
r%) time is. It is not our purpose
\ to discuss abstract definitions
or speculations as to what time
really is, but simply to look at it as
it is popularly regarded, and more
especially to discuss its relation to the
student, and to give him some idea of
the value of what he is apt to thoughtlessly waste—a momenc here and a
few yonder. We all know that the
time we have, from one day to another, scarcely suffices to prepare our
lessons for the morrow, yet how many
precious moments we waste! How
often we hear some one say, "O, it is
only ten minutes; that does not
amount to anything ! " Yet this.short
ten minutes you will find, by reference
to a table given below, amounts to
thirty hours in just one short school
year.
Thirty whole hours! Why just
think of it ! That is over one-fiftieth
of the total study time we have in a
school year, and by using it we could
do one-fiftieth more work. It is not
the one ten minutes that we waste
every day, but the most of us waste
several ten minutes, and, of course,
they count up rapidly. Let us examine the figures and see. We have
study hours, that is those prescribed
for the Stetson Hall students, for nine
and one-fourth hours on four days in
the week, seven hours on Friday and
four and one-fourth on Saturday, making forty-eight and one-fourth hours
per week, and this amounts to fourteen
hundred and forty-seven and one-half
hours in a school year. Now, let us
see what a few moments lost each day
amounts to in a school year:
10 minutes lost each day amounts to 30 hours per
school year.
20 minutes lost each day amounts to 60 hours per
school year.
45 minutes lost each day amounts to 135 hours per
school year.
1 hour lost each day amounts to 180 hours perjchool
year.
2 hours lost each day amounts to 360 hours per school
year.
And so on. If you are in the habit of wasting more than two hours per
day you can very easily compute, from
the above table, how much time you
lose. We trust that none of us approach the two-hour mark, for then
we would lose about one-fourth of the
time which is the most precious to us
of any in our lives. Keeping these
few facts in mind, let us remember the
old maxim, "Take care of the moments and the hours will take care of
themselves;" and let us throw ourselves, heart and soul, into our work
with the determination to improve the
golden moments while we have them,
for who knows what the morrow may
have in store for him?
PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT,
E devote a large por-
F tion of our space to this
<p very interesting document. We are glad to
concur in our honored
President's opinion
when he says that we
have grown in the past year. We see
many evidences of this on all sides.
We especially concur in his recommendations for a new chapel, library
building, gymnasium, etc. These have
become imperative necessities, if we
are to grow and develop, and wetrust
and hope that our honorable Board of
Trustees will see that these needs are
filled at once. Let us have them so
that, adding little by little, we shall
continue our march onward and upward until we have placed John B.
Stetson University in the front rank
of the foremost universities of this
great and glorious land.
THE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS,
T last the Fifty-First Con-
] gress has adjourned. Its
® sessions have been marked
, by some unusual features,
^ClT&jflp chief among which is, per-
t||vt haps, the change in the
tMf) rules of the lower house, by
h' which the freedom of debate and the power of the minority
were restricted. From first to last
its sessions were interesting, and for
no long period were they characterized by those periods of dullness usual
to nearly every Congress.
In actual working time, it exceeded
all its predecessors, and in nominal
working time was exceeded only by
