No Time for Reading.

We are prone to excuse the proverbial busy college student with classes to attend, lessons to prepare, letters home and otherwise to write, a thousand and one outside activities to attend to, and the necessary and desired amount of recreation to get in, when he so invariably exclaims, "No time for reading!" But just a moment: Did it ever occur to you that after all in this very busy life of ours we do somehow manage to squeeze in the things we want most? No dodging now!

How many times a day or week do we plead, "No time for reading"? Of course, it goes without saying that we can't have something for nothing in this world, and if we could, it wouldn't be worth much. Every day we pay some sort of coin for the things we want--and that without a murmur! If reading is one of the things we want most--well, just between us, don't you think the fellow who begs "No time for reading!" usually means "No inclination"--whether he knows that is what he means or not? Daily Illini