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ingly large. You are entitled to find pleasure and reward in jonv work 

 and to carry on the work in which you can find the most satisfaction, 

 and 3'Ou are entitled to have a reasonable time and sufficient trial to make 

 certain of what that work is. 



It would be a great help to you if you could fully realize how much 

 one's intellectual development depends upon his mental food. The lines 

 are now being set, upon W'hich your entire lives will be projected. It 

 is even noticeable in your student days. The hard students show it in 

 their faces; so the social "butterflies show that in their faces as well as in 

 their term reports; the scientists put on glasses early. All this and much 

 more is only the outw^ard proof of the changes which are going on in the 

 mind. Then be sure that the mind is rightly nourished and that the 

 lines are rightly set. No matter what work you take up for gain, do 

 not fail to continue your studies and enlarge your libraries after you 

 leave College. Gratify your natural love for sport. Let your better 

 natures grow ; do not be afraid to freely express your moral sensibilities, 

 for they will not gain strength without exercise and expression, and 

 their full development is imperative to a useful and successful life. 

 Keep balanced; see and investigate things along the road; yet keep in 

 touch with life. Read the newspapers and mingle constantly in affairs; 

 yet do not become so engrossed in material things that you neglect to 

 cultivate the culture side; and if you have not already begun this course 

 begin it now. 



It is a satisfaction to think we see that each great cycle of the world's 

 life leads the race up to a higher plane. Nature is continually ad- 

 vancing and ascending. As with the physical world, so it is with normal 

 life. So let it be with you as the years turn off the periods of your lives. 

 It is said that the solar system, perhaps the whole stellar system, is in 

 motion towards one point, — the great center of gravity of the infinite 

 universe. Js it not likewise true that the infinite universe of life is mov- 

 ing along God's greatest and most w^ondrous cycle to the point of ever- 

 lasting rest? How do we know, indeed why should we not think, that the 

 experiences through which the great human family passes are but the 

 beatings of the truth upon the universe of thought and the breakings of 

 the bonds which finally shall set the whole race free? 



We know, indeed, too well, that the journey of a student's life leads 

 away from our doors. We must say the last public farewell. May your 

 characters round out and come into perfect equipoise. May your stores 

 increase. May you be steady when the strain comes. May your influence 

 widen and strengthen. May each succeeding cycle of your lives advance 

 you to a higher plane. May you take on the multiplying years gracefully. 

 And may the end be perfect peace. 



THE WOMAN'S CLUB MOVEMENT A SIGN OF THE TIMES. 



TERESA A. BRISTOL, REPRESENTING THE WOMEN'S COURSE. 



In all the annals of history there has never been a revolution more 

 complete, more far-reaching in its results, none whose true causes are 

 less understood than the revolution through which the social world has 

 iust passed and bv means of which the emancipation of woman has been 

 accomplished. The extent and significance of the movement has never 

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