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The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review, October 1919

They Shall Not Make Haste

They Shall Not Make Haste

The man who cuts across street corners and spoils the grassy side-walk, in his stupid haste to "get there," what will he do when the inevitable day arrives and he is stranded in an infinity where no amount of cutting corners will serve to bring him nearer the end of the road? The jerry-builder rushing up his pretty villas, with what a fever of energy will he slave in that eternity where the lifetime of his works will be as the twinkling of an eye. The chronic saver of time, how will he spend eternity? For the free and noble spending of time is the gift of the few, by the rest it must be acquired by long practice. And re-membering this, bear patiently the seeming needless slowness of the Senate. It was only in 1910 that University Reform became matter for serious discussion—too short a time ago to count in the long ages that have been and may be. And what can be more unlovely then the breathless haste of the outside world of to-day?