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than the steady and peaceful study of 

 Greek, mathematics or anything else. 

 If the college girl insists, as she some- 

 times does, upon filling the time which 

 should be devoted to study with social 

 amusements and activities and then 

 crams for her examinations at a late 

 hour at night and with a feeling of 

 intense anxiety, she is unquestionably 

 subjecting her health to an undue 

 strain. But this is an abuse of the 

 higher education not its legitimate pur- 

 suit. The girl who steadily pursues 

 her studies as the business of her life, 

 allowing herself reasonable time for 

 exercise and recreation, is most un- 

 likely to be found in the sanitarium 

 among the victims of ' nervous pros- 

 perity.' The 'prosperity' shows where 

 these come from— from the ranks of 

 the luxurious and indolent. The best 

 method of preventing egotism, selfish- 

 ness, and consequently introspection, is 

 to give our boys and girls such intense 

 interests outside of themselves that 

 they have neither time nor inclination 

 for morbid self-study. 



I can not go into the question of 

 men's higher education, but should like 

 to say in regard to Dr. Smith's state- 

 ment about millionaires that I am quite 

 ready to agree that the higher educa- 

 tion is not likely to produce them. If 

 a man wants to be a millionaire I think 

 he does wisely to leave school early. 

 But one of the things to be hoped from 

 our higher education is that it will pro- 

 duce in our men nobler ambitions than 

 those of mere money-getting, and in our 

 women the desire for husbands whose 

 aspirations are of a widely different 

 kind. 



Our whole notion needs to have the 

 beauty of simplicity impressed upon it. 

 As Emerson says : ' Things are in the 

 saddle and ride mankind.' What is 

 the remedy? Less culture? No, more! 

 So much that we shall see and taste 

 the higher pleasure tnat comes from 

 the intellectual and spiritual, and 

 which is always more simple, more 

 wholesome and less expensive than the 

 material enjoyment which it replaces. 

 Olivia R. Febnow. 



