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your health and opportunities will permit. The more 

 knowledge you have the better you can teach. Never 

 slight the poor, nor flatter the rich ; view all as the 

 children of one Father. Do all the good you can, and 

 prevent all the harm in your power. 



Fourteenth. The teachers will be held responsible 

 for the books, pens, pencils, rubbers, rulers, and ink- 

 wells belonging to the several departments over which 

 they preside ; also for the defacing of desks, walls, or 

 black-boards. 



Ta The Studewts. 



'< On. study. Sit down to your studies every day 

 under the deep impression that what you have to do 

 demands your best powers and your utmost diligence. 

 Strive to acquire the habit of close and fixed atten- 

 tion in study. He who has not learned the art of 

 fastening his mind on the subject, and of holding that 

 subject strictly and firmly before it, will never look 

 deeply into anything ; will never accomplish anything 

 which deserves the name of investigation. 



Constantly implore the aid of the Holy Spirit in 

 study. The duty of humbly and importunately ask- 

 ing the blessed Spirit's influence to sanctify our affec- 

 tions, and to aid us in cultivating all the graces and 

 virtues of the Christian life, will not, I suppose, be 

 disputed by any one who has the smallest tincture of 

 piety. Never imagine that any valuable amount of 

 knowledge, and especially of accurate knowledge, is 

 to be obtained without labor. Leave nothing till you 

 have done it well. Skimming over the surface of 

 any subject is of little use. Passing on to something 



