EXEMPLARS AT HOWARD: THREE MEN AND TWO WOMEN By Asithandile Gxumisa
One glorious day two Crabs left their home to take a stroll on the warm sand. "Child," remarked the mother carpingly, "you are walking very ungracefully. You should accustom yourself to walking straight forward without twisting from side to side. "Pray mother," retorted the young one, "do but set the example yourself, and I will follow you." Example is the best precept : in these aphoristic words did Aesop, to whom this old fable is attributed, express the lesson to be learned from it. As it was with the little Crab, so it is with Men: we live by example. Precepts, however excellent, will not avail much so long as they are not embodied in actual Men. Nowadays splendid precepts abound like peacock butterflies in Spring, but Men to exemplify them are scarcer than rainfall on the Chilean desert of Atacama. It is for this reason that I deem myself to have been so fortunate to have stumbled upon men and women of admirable example at the University ...