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Editorial . . ." And yet the menace of the yearsFind s and shall find me unafraid."Ju st lately, I've been noticing the unint entional effort I put into thesmall, almost humdrum things that I've alway s don e whilst at Coll ege. I amsuddenly exper iencing a kind of dre ad: this is the last time I'll be doing this."The End" is such an ominous phrase tha t it makes me feel as if everythingis abandoned.We all tend to live in the present , the immediate moment , and whenthat time passes we don 't notice it unti l our attention is specifically focusedon it. It seem s to have gone quickly and all the tri als and anxieties arerationalised into nothing. We live in a haze of the present and the future.What do we expect of life? Success? Gai ety? Happiness? As Anna saidto Kitty before her debut into Society, in Tolstoy's masterpiece, Anna Karenin,"I remember that blue haze like the haze of the mountains of Switzerland.The haze which envelops everything at the blissful time when childhoodis just coming to an end and its huge merry circle narrows to a pathwh ich one treads gaily yet with dre ad into life's corridor, bright and splendidas it appears."Most of us have spent the greater part of our time in schools. We havecome to College and found the same security and refuge that school gave us,but in a different way. We are a little more independent; we handle our ownmoney; some live away from home, but not many of us have had the opportunityto rely on our own resources. We have not had serious responsibilities,and so it should be, since youth is the time of freedom.Despite this protection, we tend to face the world with an inner fearand insecurity. Shall I be capable? Shall I succeed? These and many otherquestions plague us.Page Two STRUAN. 1962