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to enlarge upon, and by his retentive faculties, the memory and reason, 

 we gain through nature our best teacher. We also gain what is termed 

 "learning" through books and by experiment. 



It has been well said, "What sculpture is to the block of marble, 

 education is to the human soul." So in a measure our education is with 

 us at birth and in previous generations. For the records of our courts 

 show whole generations of bad blood. Some may call to mind the New 

 York woman whose several hundred criminals were a menace to so- 

 ciety. 



On the other hand we rcmembrr that the genealogy of Jonathan 

 Edwards'- family showed a number ol preachers, sixty-five college pro- 

 fessors, several missionaries and scores of worthy faim citizens, whose 

 quiet, honest lives were as a leaven to the nation. 



W T e know it pays to. educate mind and heart as well, for not only our- 

 selves in life's short day, but for those coming after us to perpetuate 

 this great commonwealth, so hallowed by the blood and sacrifices of our 

 patriots. 



We, as a younger people, in retrospecting, can but truly give our grati- 

 tude to those of our forefathers, who, by their struggles in pioneer days 

 on unplowed prairies, or in heavy iorests, prepared so well for our com- 

 ing, and it becomes our duty to take up our responsibilities in good cheer 

 and do our best. 



President Roosevelt has said, in speaking of an American, that he 

 should possess three things, without which he could never be a man, viz: 

 rlonesty, courage and common sense. He said: "The lesson of combin- 

 ing zeal, fervor, intense enthusiasm, with broad charity and sanity — that 

 Is the lesson that w» all need to learn. The life worth living is the life 

 of the man who works; of the man who strives; of the man who does; 

 of the man who, at the end, can look back and say, "I know I have falter- 

 ed, I know I have stumbled, I have left undone things that should have 

 been done, and much that I have cone had better been left undone, but 

 as the strength was given me I strove to use it; I strove to leave the 



