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and perfumed napkins are laid away in a 

 drawer. Poor fellow! 



Mere details have little educative value. 

 An imperfect method that is adapted to 

 one's use is better than a perfect one that 

 cannot be well used. Some school labora- 

 tories are so perfect that they discourage the 

 pupil in taking up investigations when thrown 

 on his own resources. Imperfect equipment 

 often encourages ingenuity and originality. A 

 good teacher is better than all the methods and 

 laboratories and apparatus. 



I like the man who has had an incomplete 

 course. A partial view, if truthful, is worth 

 more than a complete course, if lifeless. If 

 the man has acquired power for work, a 

 capability for initiative and investigation, an 

 enthusiasm for the daily life, his incompleteness 

 is his strength. How much there is before 

 him! How eager his eye! How enthusiastic 

 his temper ! He is a man with a point of view. 

 This man will see first the large and significant 

 events; he will grasp relationships; he will cor- 

 relate; later, he will consider the details. He 



