Prickly Pear, The . The Prickly P e a r hane I-ifty-Nine \:.^--:^r. ^:i^mM---M:^mm^m0::i^Mi Page Sixty The P r i c J: 1 u P iCrarntng: to iCi\)f ^f IFE is still a very new thing- to young people of fifteen to twenty-five,^1 and its wonder and beauty and half-guessed possibilities keep themTi^^ aglow over the great adventtire of living. They have been toldrepeatedly that youth is the time to learn knowledge, to learn life,to learn God. They feel dimly that it is also the time to learn to of the things they can learn from books, though they find aftera while that book knowledge m


Prickly Pear, The . The Prickly P e a r hane I-ifty-Nine \:.^--:^r. ^:i^mM---M:^mm^m0::i^Mi Page Sixty The P r i c J: 1 u P iCrarntng: to iCi\)f ^f IFE is still a very new thing- to young people of fifteen to twenty-five,^1 and its wonder and beauty and half-guessed possibilities keep themTi^^ aglow over the great adventtire of living. They have been toldrepeatedly that youth is the time to learn knowledge, to learn life,to learn God. They feel dimly that it is also the time to learn to of the things they can learn from books, though they find aftera while that book knowledge must not be accumulated as a mere mass offacts, but digested and assimilated as a part of ones self. Some things canbe learned only by living, but both kinds of learning can be aided andhelped by the experience of their elders if only the young heads and heartsare willing to accept the frtiits of such experience, instead of learningwholly by their own mistakes. To learn to live! Youth finds that life is complex, finds itself to be apart of a great company also intent on


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