enables the student to speak in a logical manner and with a clearness and readiness essential to the successful engineer. (3) It actuates the student to original thought and invention, as it is a will ing work on his part rather than one of compul sion as is the class room work to a great extent, (4) It aids the student to decide which of the engineering courses to pursue—a question some what difficult to decide—by placing before his notice their respective requirements and adyan tages. The work of the literary societies is inad equate to the engineer'S requirements. It is true they are a great aid to the engineering student even, but in comparison with an engineering so ciety they lack many things. Frequency and time of meeting are as yet obstacles to be met with, but their removal is practicable. We believe that the engineering departments of this institution are in the lead, despite the facts that the courses in Electrotechnics and Me chanical Engineering were recently established, and that, in proportion to the number of students in the other departments, excluding the 'ladies' department, the members of which are not by na ture decreed to follow an engineering profession, they receive less financial aid than the other de partments, How could they be otherwise when such men as Professors Barnard, Osmond and Reber, full of energy and push, head them ? In view of these facts, students, why not make the "Engineering Society of P. S. C," the leading organization ? Surely there is enough material and of the right stamina to do so. Get a move on Make failure a not-to-be-thought-of condition. Success can be had by uniting every• effort to maintain the society's existence. En courage the "modest" to work for its interests. Show an interest while engaged in its work wor thy of a professional man. Clean some of the dust off the engineering periodicals and maga zines in the college library and fear not to open their leaves and peruse their pages. We mean the dust the students let congregate on them, With these few remarks, and the best wishes of the ed itbrs, we ask to hear of you often. THE FREE LANCE. 4tlla atilkilll2 SIMPLE CONTENTMEN Aline be a hovel by the way, Remote from all mankind, There without knowledge let me KW That I content may Ibid. That I from all life's petty woes May nee to find true rest, To me give solitude's repose, Then I am truly blest. We sigh for knowledge and its power We dream of wealth and fame, We sigh for the far distant hour That gives the world a name. But oh I how many pangs are Is me To gain this vaunted power, Him many hearts with sorrow worn To reach this lofty tower I If in the human heart you place Lore, knowledge, side by side, Fair Eden's walks you'll ne'er retrae Nor math her towers abide. Content will spring up from yam life Ambition's fire consume, The world will be a field of strife Until you reach the tomb. Love will with disappointment meet, And dreams of wealth will fade ; Our knowledge will seem incomplete, Our confidence.betrayed ; Cursed Poverty may dance with glee And fold us in his arms, And Debt with all its misery May rob life of its charms. So he who without knowledge dwells, Who has but God to praise, Whose heart with human love ne'er s Nor friendship e'er displays,— Ms he who pure content cloth find, He knows no care or Eo ;Tow , To him, to-day God has assigned, What care he for to-morrow ?
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