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A Magazine Published Quarterly by the Students of Simmons University.
THOMAS LAWRENCE WRIGHT, Editor
CONRAD R. LAM, Business Manager
CONTENTS
FALL, 1925
THE LOST SECRET (Story), Lawrence Wright............................-----------------------------------------------2
POEMS, Verna Smith.....------........---...____.... ------------------------------4
THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE (Story), A. John.---------------------....---..............---------------------------.... 5
'TIs THE WAY OF LIFE (Essay), Mary Hankins.....-----------........................................ 8
WHEN REVENGE IS NOT SWEET (Story) Lawrence Fitzgerald ..................................---------------------------------- 9
LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD (Essay), Mrs. O. H. Harwell---------.....-----------........... ...10
GOSSIP (Essay), Mary Hankins....----------.......................------------------------------------------------11
A TREATISE ON TOOTHACHES (Special Article), Joe Burton ................................----------------------------------12
SIMMONS (Poem), Emmalyn B. LeMin ............- --------........ 15
SIMMONS O'MINE (Poem), Verna Smith...------------------........------------------.. . ----------------18
SELECTED POEMS, Verna Smith ...... __........... ............... 19
SELECTED------POEMS,-----Verna-----Smith-------------------- ---- ------------------------ --------------19
EDITORIALS
WHY IS A UNIVERSITY-
If man is susceptible to improvement, then education is useful and if education is useful, then the
university is at the helm of human progress. Wherein should the university center its greatest effort?
Some say that the building of character should be its paramount objective. Yet, character is a by-
product of those other materials which go to make a man, namely: a virile body, a versatile mind,
and a vigilant soul.
Woodrow Wilson said, "A man who cultivates his character consciously will cultivate nothing
except what will make him intolerable to his fellow men. If your object in life is to make a fine
fellow of yourself, you will not succeed, and you will not be acceptable to really fine fellows. Char-
acter is a by-product. It comes, whether you will or not, as a consequence of a life devoted to the
nearest duty, and the place in which character would be cultivated, if it be a place of study, is a place
where study is the object and character the result."
The object of a university then is to educate. It is a place where men and women should be
coached to meet life's assignments with intellect and skill. The university is the place to proclaim the
sovereignty of learning. A spirit of scholarship should predominate and other things should follow.
A school may attain recognition by more than one avenue of publicity. It may be locally famed
for the recognition accorded its faculty or the popularity accorded its students. It may attain notoriety
through the doctrines that it teaches. It may become known, sensationally, by the power of its ath-
letic organizations. But these things may last for a season and pass away. These things will not
establish the name of a school. It is the years to come that will be the censor of to-day's activity. The
name of a school must be carried on by the men and women who go from its doors with an ideal
and a vision and a comprehensive knowledge of the requirements of society and industry.
Then, if education is the object and knowledge is the goal, let us make the spirit of scholarship
the overtone of the Spirit of Simmons. -T. L. W.
A WORD TO THE READERS OF THE CORRAL-
The publication of this little magazine has been made possible by the business men and firms
whose advertisements appear elsewhere in this issue. They are the men who are behind Simmons
students in their every undertaking. Remember them when you do your Christmas shopping, for in
their places of business you are sure to find an air of congeniality and friendly helpfulness.
-C. R. L.
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