The Radiant . mischievous pranks. The fairy says to Puck:Are you not he that frightensThe maidens of the villagery ? And: Misleads night-wanderersLaughing at their harm ? Taking in consideration that these lovely little heings areswifter than the moons sphere/ and that they are able to puta girdle round the earth in forty minutes, one must class themwith the supernatural and the infinite. Their habits, their rela-tion to nature, their occupations, their love of singing and danc-ing, picture them as fanciful existences in the realm of the sub-lime. THE RADIANT Vol. VII. No. 3 Published four tim
The Radiant . mischievous pranks. The fairy says to Puck:Are you not he that frightensThe maidens of the villagery ? And: Misleads night-wanderersLaughing at their harm ? Taking in consideration that these lovely little heings areswifter than the moons sphere/ and that they are able to puta girdle round the earth in forty minutes, one must class themwith the supernatural and the infinite. Their habits, their rela-tion to nature, their occupations, their love of singing and danc-ing, picture them as fanciful existences in the realm of the sub-lime. THE RADIANT Vol. VII. No. 3 Published four times a year, in November, January, April,and June, by the Publication Committee of Atlantic Chris-tian College, Wilson, N. C. The Highest Expression of Christian Education:Ignorance is Vice; Knowledge, Virtue. Entered as second-<jlass matter March 22, 1909, at postoffice at Wilson, N. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Editor Benjamin F. Oden Business Manager D. S. Spain Assistant Business Manager H. T. Bowen. Our readers will find in the literary department of this issuetwo orations. One, The Day of Peace—A Nations Glory, byJ. M. Waters, was delivered at Greensboro in The Inter-colle-giate Oratorical Contest. Though Mr. Waters did not win, The Radiant. 133 the college feels deeply its obligation to him for the eminentlymasterful way in which he acquitted himself and thereby reflect-ed honor upon the college. We want to commend this effort ofMr. Waters, and see in it an earnest of greater achievements,and, as regards similar events, look to the future with compla-cency. The other oration, Southern Romance, by Miss Fan-nie Manning, was delivered in the annual oratorical contest onFebruary the twentieth and was the winning oration. This ora-tion breaths a spirit of patriotism,—a new kind of patriotism—patriotism of our literature. It is a reassuring sign when onedoes not have to look beyond his kin to find excellence. Maythis spirit increase and increasingly find in that a
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