"OLD FASHIONED FOLKS"

Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith, introduced by Professor I. N. Hollis h.'99, of the Engineering Department, delivered a most interesting lecture last evening in the Living Room of the Union. The lecture was prepared especially for the occasion by Mr. Smith, who has long desired to address a Harvard audience.

Mr. Smith compared the quiet home life and calm business career of fifty years ago with the conventional customs and frenzied haste of today. Fortunate is the man who was brought up in his youth by a wise mother and father of the old type--parents whose sole aim was to educate their children in the ways of simplicity and true happiness. Today the seemingly successful man is so engrossed in his own interest that many external affairs which contain the real pleasures of life are excluded. He has no time for vacation, for the joys of home life, or for the tranquillity of old age. Business is the key note of his policy.

The only means of bringing us back to the standard of half a century ago is for the youth of the land to return to the old simplicity in pleasure, and the old contentment without great riches. Take a vacation every year, let no business whatsoever stand in the way, for it is only by regularly breaking away from work that capacity for enjoying the fruit of work can be preserved