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iiieir own unaided force and industry ; if they have acquired thrifty 

 habits and self -helpfulness and self-trust,— they enter life with 

 great and most assuring advantages." 



It is precisely this training which can be found in the 

 occupation we offer ; but though we can carry out what we 

 nndertake, we cannot always ensure a successful result, nor 

 provide the pupil with a lucrative employment. We can, 

 as Emerson says, " but accompany the youth to the srate of 

 the arena, for it is certain that, not by any strength of ours, 

 but only by the strength of his own, must he stand or fall." 

 Unquestionably in some cases, notwithstanding all the care 

 of ourselves and our agents, signal failure has been more or 

 less the result — less when the pupil has simply been dis- 

 inclined for steady application, more in that of those of 

 dissolute and intemperate habits. But even in these latter 

 and disheartening cases, success is not absolutely hopeless, if 

 friends will be persuaded not to commit the fatal error of 

 continually helping with money young men whom it would 

 be truer kindness to leave to help themselves. The late 

 lamented President Garfield, who rose by his own exertions 

 from the humblest td the highest station in his native 

 country, once observed with homely triteness : — 



" In nine times out of ten, the best thing that can happen to a 

 young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or 

 swim for himself. In all my acquaintances, I never knew a man 

 to be drowned who was worth saving." 



Proper contracts are entered into by us both with the Agree- 

 farmers and the friends of the pupils, and the fullest parti- JJ^e^its. 

 culars will be given on all points upon which farther infor- 

 mation is desired. "Whenever it is possible, a personal 

 interview is most satisfactory, for the numerous questions 

 which naturally occur can then be more fully answered and 

 explained than by letter. 



Reference will be given to parents whose sons have Refer- 

 gone out (many among the number being the sons of clergy- ences. 

 men, officers, and members of county families), so soon as it 

 has been decided that this proposed occupation and openinsr 

 meet the views of the enquirer ; and we strongly advise aU 

 who msh to send out their sons to make full enquiry, as we 



