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boy takes his proper place when honest, democratic brain effort is 

 required of him. If he is not a student, he will no longer pretend to 

 be one and ought not to be in college. The rowdy, the mucker, the 

 hair-cutting, gate-lifting, cane-riishing imbecile is never a real student. 

 He is a gamin masquerading in cap and gown. The requirement of 

 scholarship brings him to terms. If we insist that our colleges shall 

 not pretend to educate those who can not or will not be educated, we 

 shall have no trouble with the moral training of the students. 



Above all, in the West, where education is free, we should insist 

 that free tuition means serious work, that education means oppor- 

 tunity, that the student should do his part, and that the degree of the 

 university should not be the seal of academic approbation of four years 

 of idleness, rowdyism, profligacy or dissipation. 



Higher education, properly speaking, begins when a young man 

 goes away from home to school. The best part of higher education is 

 the development of the instincts of the gentleman and the horizon of 

 the scholar. To this end, self-directed industry is one of the most 

 effective agents. As the force of example is potent in education, a 

 college should tolerate idleness and vice neither among its students 

 nor among its teachers. 



