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of the intellectual world, and by visiting these halls, 

 these vast libraries, collections of art and nature, and all 

 products of human wisdom, the student is spared a 

 world-journey and finds at his hand the best that every 

 age affords. Such an institution is to be used as men 

 and women use an encyclopedia; there should be fre- 

 quent supplementary volumes ; now and then a new edi- 

 tion, and a very liberal index. 



Lastly, let us never forget that out of all educational 

 training of every kind and wherever offered, there comes 

 one superlative product, the crowning achievement of all 

 attainments, blending these to purport, to purpose, to 

 efficiency and accomplishment; this ultimate sublime re- 

 sult we reckon character ; the total aggregate of all those 

 powers, and tastes, and passions, perceptions, principles 

 which make up the individual enlightened man. Through 

 all the course of his school-training the student is 

 brought face to face with ideals, the highest dreamed of, 

 by the best and purest of the race ; he learns to estimate 

 value in units that may not be weighed in a balance 

 with silver nor measured in ounces of gold ; he learns to 

 love that which is beautiful and pure in art, in literature, 

 in life and 



li whosoe'er in youth, 



Hath felt his soul to such delights give way, 

 Shall feel congenial stirrings late and long." 



"Like to that soul, art thou, which thou dost compre- 

 hend, ' ' the proverb runs ; and to put the youthful spirit 

 in fair and living contact with the precious garnered 

 ideals of all the race and thus beget in him a character 

 which shall make the hero, the saint, the scholar live 



