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short of the best things of which we are capable. BLUE BOOK

Unless each year finds us stronger morally, we may have mastered much of 1919
literature, more of art, and the whole field of science, but we have not gTown
in the large sense. Intellectual development in any individual without a The Standard Reference for Alpha Omicron Pi Jewelry,
strengthening of the moral fiber is a real menace to society in that the world together with illustrated Badge Price List, will be mailed
often takes for granted the latter where it finds the former and entrusts to the on application. Correspondence Solicited.
one well equipped intellectually what it would not think of entrusting to the
ignorant. A striking example of this one-sided development is to be found in L. G. Balfour Co.
German "Kultur" of which we hear so much and so often ; here is a people
capable of the finest accomplishments known to the world of science, yet low ATTLEBORO, MASS.
enough in the moral scale to toss aside as a "scrap of paper" its pledged word
to another nation ; to gouge and tear out the eyes and the tongues of helpless Official Jeweler to Alpha Omicron Pi
prisoners of war; to cut off the hands of little children and to violate defenseless
girls and women. Surely a warning lies that way and from it the thinking
mind must turn with horror. These are extreme examples, we think, of morals
gone wrong and we are very sure we are not in danger in such ways; perhaps
we are not, but we need to be sure we are making a definite advance in the
opposite direction, to be sure that we have turned our backs on untruth of even
the so-called milder type, which keeps us silent when we ought to speak, perhaps;
on dishonesty which would make it seem worth while to take what belonged to
another, either of a material or of any other sort, such as the unfair use of a
fellow student's notebook or the taking of an idea from a neighbor's examination
paper; on cruelty of that refined type, something found among girls, which
causes them to turn sharply and definitely away from the shy, retiring, and
unpopular student to one from whom there is expected more material gain.

These are days of rapidly and definitely increasing responsibility for every-
one and such will be the case for years to come. The choicest of our men have
been or will be taken away from the usual places which knew them in days of
peace; those less fit must take their places as best they can. T o women the
country may look for strength that shall be equal to some of the tasks thus
left unfinished, but, without question, to its women it must look for a moral
strength that shall be so powerful, so all pervading that it can instill a spirit
to carry forward the work of the world.

From college women, and justly so, will be expected the greatest power both
mentally and morally; they will not fail to meet the expectation mentally, they
must not fail to meet it morally.

To each college girl then belongs the duty and the privilege to so live in the
seemingly small and insignificant every-day affairs that she shall not be found
wanting in the great testing days that assuredly lie not far ahead.

MARY TOUGH,
Head of Home Economics Department,

Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

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