" Whoever has not in youth collected plants and in- 

 sects, knows not half the halo of interest which lanes and 

 hedgerows can assume. Whoever has not sought for fos- 

 sils has little idea of the poetic associations that surround 

 the place where imbedded treasures are found. Whoever 

 at the seaside has not had a microscope and aquarium, has 

 yet to learn what the highest pleasures of the seaside 

 are." — Herbert Spencer. 



" Culture consists less in wide knowledge than in wider 

 sympathy ; not so much in stores of facts as in ability to 

 transmute facts into knowledge ; not onlj' in well-grounded 

 conviction, but in toleration ; not alone in absorption of 

 wisdom, but as well in its radiation ; in patriotism that is 

 without provincialism ; in the development of character. 

 But since individual minds differ much in their composi- 

 tion, no one kind of treatment can be best for all, and the 

 ideal system will be that which is elastic enough to allow 

 each to receive wliat is best for it. True culture, then, 

 cannot be obtained by forcing all minds into any one mould 

 however carefully that may be made, but it is rather at- 

 tained by allowing each mind to expand for itself under a 

 proper combination of nourishment from within and 

 stimulus from without." — WILLIAM F. Ganong, Ph. D., in 

 " The Teaching Botanist." 



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