Ipears! Ir Is tug Day of the high school and col- 
lege graduate and often do we hear of the ideals in life— 
the ideal citizen—the ideal American—and ideals of one 
thing or another, The realist cries that we should look 
to things around us and let the shadows pass—for thus he 
styles those truths which we are wont to call ideals. 
Though it may be true that ideals are seldom realized in 
this life, even the unrealized bring consolation, for they 
sustain us in the belief that the soul which can conceive 
and desire such a noble existence was born for something 
better than this world can give. It was Tennyson who 
touched upon this question of ideals most nobly in his 
“Lady of Shalott.” Upon her tower by the riverbank 
she studied the earth through her mirror of ideals. As 
long as she looked up at the reflected image in her mirror 
she wove them into a beauteous personality. But one 
day, allurement flashed across her mirror and she looked 
down forgetful of the risk. “I’m sick of shadows,” she 
said, for she made the modern mistake of regarding ideals 
as shadows. Ruin-came. She descended from the rver- 
bank, which symbolizes the once elevated moral plane on 
which she moved, and, entering a boat, floated down the 
stream of lower aims. So it is with all who forsake their 
ideals! It is well that we turn our minds to such thoughts 
as these, as the young men and women of our schools 
and colleges preach the doctrine of ideals and kindred 
subjects from the platforms and college halls. Ideals 
are apt to be more pronounced in the lives and thoughts 
of younger people,—but for no good logical reason, how- 
ever. We should never be too old to have ideals. 
SSB 
One InrERESTING PLAN has come to our attention 
which illustrates the spirit that is abroad in our land. The 
investor purchased Liberty bonds to aid the government in 
the presecution of the war and has determined not to 
profit by the war, but to give all the dividends that accure 
from his bonds to the work of the Red Cross society and 
to the Y. M. C, A. Hut funds. Here is a great oppor- 
tunity. You have bought your bonds. make it now a 
really generous gift on your part and consecrate the in- 
terest by giving all the dividends to the relief work that 
must be carried on as the war is fought. 
SSS 
Wuere Witt You Spend tomorrow afternoon? 
Don’t you want to see the very heart of the North Shore? 
Don’t you want to ride and walk through the grounds of 
the finest estates on the Shore. Then go to Pride’s Cross- 
ing station and follow the crowd at the handsome drive- 
way leading to the Paine and Haven estates. Your 50 
cents will help our Red Cross. Go! 
BESS 
Tur Cornecks Arg Harp Hir these war days and 
every college needs a loyal alumnus to come forward to 
euarantee any war deficit. Harvard does not intend to 
fund its indebtedness and it ought not to. The loyal as- 
sistance of graduates is needed by many institutions. 
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Batrs Corteck Is Tuts YEAR also under the war 
cloud and the men of the senior class have shown them- 
selves to be patriots of high order. The proportion of 
men in this college is high and the institution takes 
a high rank among the colleges of the country, 
America Has ALREADY Becun THE WAR ARIGH’T 
and has determined that every man of military age shall 
be drafted on equal terms for service when the time 
comes. Now when the war is over and the men are com- 
ing home there will be honor for those who went and no 
dishonor for those who remained at home. Because every 
man is liable for service and if not drafted he has, never- 
theless, stood ready to do his duty. There is a problem, 
however, that will have to be settled soon and that is the 
position of the aliens who are in our midst. 
reason why the young men who are citizens, and who have 
had loyalty enough to become naturalized American citi- 
zens, should find the alien who has been disloyal to his 
own land avoiding all of the obligations in the new land 
and standing ready to profit by the scarcity of young men 
and the tightness of the labor market. Some arrange- 
ment must be made so that foreign people will be obliged 
to assume the responsibilities of military duty under some 
flag. America must be just in all things and protect the 
men who are loyal American citizens, Ss 
BES 
Tue Liperty LOAN CAMPAIGN was a marvelous suc- 
cess and was no greater than was to have been expected 
in this great and prosperous country. America must go 
on with the great work. With an oversubscription of 
over fifty percent the moral weight of this evidence of 
American determination, will mean much to Germany. 
Germany has been deceived in her position and has greatly 
underestimated the efficiency and determination of the 
American people. The success of the loan campaign 
ought to effectually dispel the delusion under which she 
has been working. 
BEB 
Tur PRESIDENT has supplemented the draft with a 
call for volunters between the ages of twenty and forty, 
who have no dependents, It has been manifest that the 
man between thirty and forty who has no dependents was 
free from the obligations of the registration. This call 
of the President gives that man his opportunity and for- . 
ever takes away from him the claim that he was exempted 
by the provisions of the conscription act. The President 
has called for volunteers between the two ages and he 
hears the call. Will he heed it? 
BEES 
Tur One REMARKABLE Fact concerning the enlist- 
ments in Boston, and the registrations also, has been the 
great willingness with which the Italians have rallied to 
the colors of their native land and to the colors in their 
adopted land. Already the enlistments in the City of 
Boston from the Italian citizens is commendable, yet as- 
tonishing to those who have not understood the Italian 
sections. Italian Americans are loyal Americans in this 
war. 
EBEBS 
Mr. Hoover Has BEEN Honoren by. the highest hon- 
orary degree which Harvard university can confer for his 
loyal and efficient service to humanity in Belgium in the 
years that followed the outbreak of the war. Now he 
has been called to a service of greater magnitude in Amer- 
ica and he will assist this country is an important work. 
He must now conserve the food supply, not for Belgium 
alone, but for the world, 
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