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tunities and privileges of a better and more liberal education. 

 Much more estimaljle, however, is the man who has come up 

 under such hardships than he whose ease and luxury have 

 killed worth}^ ambition and have made the want of the best 

 possible education a matter of indifference and neglect. In 

 speaking of a liberal education, President Timothy Dwight, 

 of Yale, has said: ''He may not be a philosopher, or a poet, or 

 a statesman, or a scholar; but as educated, and because he is 

 educated, he is thoughtful, rich in his resources for himself and 

 for others. This is what the higher education means, and it 

 has no truest and deepest meaning apart from this. This 

 developed power of serious thought is the essence of educated 

 Ufe. It is the foundation of living water within the mind, 

 which is for every educated man the blessing of such life. 

 To have rich thoughts, serious thoughts ; in the sense of calm, 

 serene, earnest, intelligent, cultured, generous, manly think- 

 ing on any and all themes which are worthy of human thought, 

 what blessing for the mind can be greater, or can contain in 

 itself more truly the secret of the best living? 



''Who knows that results are greater when the man un- 

 derstands only one thing and thinks only one? The results 

 that are seen may, perchance, be greater ; though this, as relat- 

 ing to all cases, will need proving. But those that are unseen, 

 w^ho can tell of them? And the unseen results are often, if 

 not always, the greatest and most important. In the unseen 

 region is influence. It is itself, in the largest working and 

 measure of it, the most unseen of all things. But what in- 

 fluence is, and from the nature of influence will ever be, so 

 wide reaching as that of a rich mind and soul which are filled 

 out by education on every side to their fullness of culture and 

 beauty?" 



Never has the lack of a college education been more 

 keenly felt than by the young men of the present day who 

 have either neglected opportunities or have been prevented 

 from securing those advantages which are so gratif}ing to the 

 educated and which money cannot buy. Sympathy is indeed 

 due the young man w^ho feels his lack of appreciation and 

 knows his hmitations to be due to the want of a proper edu- 

 cation. Very few there are who would not give all they 



