John B. Stetson Collegiate

John B. Stetson Collegiate. VERITAS." Vol. II. DeLAND, FLORIDA, MARCH, 1891. No. Issued monthly, by the students of John B. Stetson University. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, FIFTY CENTS. Single Copies, Fifteen Cents. BOARD OK1 EDITORS. R. F. ADAMS, NELLIE M. DAY, BESSIE GREGG, - MARY E. HAWLEY, ROBT. L. LOVELL. Editor-in-Chief. Associate Editor. Litfrary Editor. Exchange Editor. Local Editor. JOHN H. WILLIAMS, Business Manager. ESP'Address all communications to the Business Manager. 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