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rather than as the principal reason for its introduction- into the 

 college course. I dislike to have it occupy, in the minds of any, 

 a wrong position, just as I dislike to see a man practice honesty 

 merely because it is good policy. We have only to follow truth 

 and do what is right because of truth and righteousness' sake, to 

 secure all the incidental benefits which flow from such a course. 

 These follow necessarily, and as surely as the character of a crop 

 is determined by the seed which is sown. It is true enough that 

 honesty is good policy, it is true enough that labor with study 

 helps meet the cost of educatioft ; and a good deal more is just 

 as true, and more important to be rightly understood. 



T. S. Gold of Connecticut. Having been a teacher with twenty- 

 five years' experience in training boys, partly in the school-room, 

 and partly on the farm, perhaps I may be allowed to say a word at 

 this time. In the institution with which I was connected, our 

 object in teaching the boys work was their benefit; we never 

 allowed any compensation for their work. Tools were provided 

 and ample opportunity given them to engage in the labors of the 

 farm and of the garden adapted to their age and ability, and the 

 result was in the highest degree satisfactory. Boys unused to 

 labor of any kind, learned, in connection with their studies, and 

 without interfering in the least with their studies in the school- 

 room, to become quite expert in the use of the tools connected 

 with the farm, in all its varied operations. The only point I 

 question with regard to your practice relates to compensation. I 

 think you have fixed it higher than you can afford, in considera- 

 tion of the fact that you give instruction in connection with it, 

 which will interfere very much with practical utility of the labor. 

 If the labor is designed to instruct the boys, many hours must be 

 spent in getting out the tools and returning them to their places, 

 and in doing many things merely for instruction and it will be 

 exceedingly difficult for you to show as great returns for the hours 

 of labor expended as if they were farm laborers under your control 

 for the whole of their time. You farmers must grant a great deal 

 of latitude in that respect. You must pardon them for not doing 

 as much in those three hours labor as you think you could do on 

 your own farms. If you have one boy upon a farm ; or one young 

 man partially trained, you make him very useful, but if you have 

 . a great deal of that kind of labor, you cannot make it very remu- 

 nerative. I have had twenty boys ready to work for me, two, 

 three, or four hours a day, just as I called upon them and all for 



