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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 2 March 15, 1939

[quotes from D. O. Stewart and Havelock Ellis]

"Our whole system of education in the field of arts and letters has been concentrated on the production of 'liberals.' And for the business of removing the teeth of a young man who might possibly wish to leave the world a better place for his presence in it. I believe there is nothing more effective than a good liberal education from which he emerges able to see both sides of the question and consequently able or desirous to act on neither.

—D. O. Stewart.

There is only one time in life for milk, only one time for youth; we cannot postpone life or retrace its milestones, and what is once lost is lost for ever. The cold waters of self-restraint and self-denial, as we first put our young feet in them, send a tonic shiver along the nerves, and we go on and on. But suddenly we find that the water has risen to our breasts, to our chins, that it is too late, that we shall never again move and breathe freely in the open air and sunshine.

That is the fate that overtakes the [unclear: yoscetic] ideal.

Unhappier yet are those who snatch the cup of life so hastily In youth and fill it with such muddy waters that the dregs cling to their lips for ever, spoiling the taste of the most exquisite things.

To live remains an art which every one must learn, and which no one can teach.

—Havelock Ellis.